Lucy Letby sentence: serial killer nurse who murdered seven babies sentenced to life in prison

Lucy Letby was also convicted of attempting to murder six more infants during her time at the Countess of Chester Hospital

The UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern history, Lucy Letby, will not see the outside of a jail cell after the nurse was sentenced to a whole life order on Monday (August 21).

Judge Mr Justice Goss handed the harshest sentence possible in the UK's justice system which means the 33-year-old will die in prison. There is no possibility of release.

She was found guilty last week of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six further infants in her care at Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016. Letby was not in attendance at her sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court.

Lucy Letby will be sentenced for her crimes on Monday

The court heard how Letby would deliberately inject newborn children with air, force-feed them with milk or poison them with insulin.