The nurse murdered seven babies and tried to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015-2016.
Whole-life orders are the most severe punishment available in the UK criminal justice system, for those who commit the most serious crimes.
‘Lucy Letby should be in court to hear society’s condemnation of the enormity of her crimes, expressed by the judge,’ the source said.. The Conservative chairman of the Health Select Committee has meanwhile called for a judge-led statutory inquiry to examine Letby’s crimes. The Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit head consultant, Dr Stephen Brearey, first raised Letby’s association with an increase in baby collapses in June 2015.
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