More than a dozen relatives of Letby's victims sat in the public gallery for the hearing
The 33-year-old killer nurse is today likely to be told to spend the rest of her life in prison without any possibility of parole for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. at Manchester Crown Court and eight jurors returned to see the sentencing.
Among the young lives she took between June 2015 and June 2016 were two boys from a set of triplets, while she also attacked three separate pairs of twins. The "cold, calculated, cruel and relentless" child killer was said to have trawled through the Facebook profiles of her victims' parents in order to revel in the devastation she had caused.
But she was said to have been the "common denominator" in all of the deaths and collapses, being the only member of staff member present during each incident. Her shocking crime spree only came to light in the summer of 2016, when a group of consultants met to discuss a puzzling rise in deaths and unexplained collapses of babies.
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