Only a small group of women have qualified for the maximum sentence in the UK
Lucy Letby has become one of few female murderers in the UK to receive a whole life sentence - meaning they will never be released from prison.
The first woman to be sent to jail for the rest of her life was Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, who was convicted of the murders of two children between 1963 and 1965 across Greater Manchester. Brady was convicted of three murders while Hindley would later confess to the murder of two other children, Cheshire Live reports.At the trial at Chester Assizes Court in 1966, Hindley, then aged 23, was convicted alongside Brady and was handed two life sentences to be served concurrently.
She was convicted by the jury just days before her 42nd birthday. While the judge urged that she should never be released, she didn't initially receive a whole life term. However, in 1997, Home Secretary Jack Straw decided that West should receive the maximum sentence.The last woman before Letby to receive the maximum sentence was Joanne Dennehy, who murdered three men in what came to be known as the Peterborough Ditch Murders.
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