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A British nurse has been jailed for life, with no prospect of release, for murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others while they were in her care. Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of killing five baby boys and two baby girls, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern history. She was arrested following a string of baby deaths at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between June 2015 and June 2016.
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00:00 During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing
00:07 and sought to attribute some fault to others. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating
00:14 factors. In their totality, the offences of murder and attempted murder were of exceptionally
00:22 high seriousness and just punishment, according to law, requires a whole life order.
00:34 Over a period of just under 13 months, you killed seven fragile babies and attempted
00:42 to kill six others. Some of your victims were only a day or a few days old. All were extremely
00:52 vulnerable. This was a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving
01:02 the smallest and most vulnerable of children, knowing that your actions were causing significant
01:10 physical suffering and would cause untold mental suffering.
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