00:00 Over a period of just under 13 months, you killed 7 fragile babies and attempted to kill
00:14 6 others. Some of your victims were only a day or a few days old. All were extremely
00:24 vulnerable. They were in a hospital where others were striving to provide them with dedicated
00:30 medical and nursing care. By their nature and number, such murders and attempted murders
00:38 by a neonatal nurse entrusted to care for them are offences of very exceptional seriousness.
00:48 The damaging impact of your actions on others working at that hospital, including those who
00:55 numbered you as a friend, betraying their trust and creating upset and suspicion,
01:01 as well as eroding confidence in clinicians and nurses generally, aggravates their seriousness.
01:10 This was a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most
01:19 vulnerable of children, knowing that your actions were causing significant physical suffering
01:27 and would cause untold mental suffering. You created situations so that collapses
01:36 or causes of collapses would not be obvious or associated with you. You removed and retained
01:44 confidential records of events relating to your crimes and checked up on bereaved parents.
01:51 There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions. During the course of this trial,
02:00 you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing and sought to attribute some fault to
02:07 others. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors. In their totality, the
02:16 offences of murder and attempted murder were of exceptionally high seriousness, and just punishment,
02:24 according to law, requires a whole life order. Lucy Letby, on each of the seven offences of
02:34 murder and the seven offences of attempted murder, I sentence you to imprisonment for life.
02:39 Because the seriousness of your offences is exceptionally high, I direct that the early
02:47 release provisions do not apply. The order of the court, therefore, is a whole life order
02:55 on each and every offence, and you will spend the rest of your life in prison.
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