The Latest Breaking News from Lucy Letby

Letters: Dr Chris Clough and David Canter on people with psychopathic traits

The blinkered thinking of the serial killer’s childhood friends says a lot about the sometimes dark side of female friendships, writes Claire Cohen

Child C’s mother told Manchester Crown Court how she had stopped wearing her son’s hand and footprint round her neck as Lucy Letby had ‘tainted’ them.

Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill six others while working in the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.

‘My family will never think of you again from this day,’ the 33-year-old murderer was told.

Parents of babies who nurse murdered or attempted to kill spoke of their grief in emotional victim impact statements at the child killer’s sentencing hearing

A former neonatal nurse who killed seven babies in her care and tried to kill six others at a hospital in northern England was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release by a judge who highlighted “the cruelty and calculation" of her actions.

Letby, who has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, took advantage of her position to kill in plain sight. But despite a 10-month trial, we’re no closer to understanding the motive behind her horrifying crimes

Former nurse will never be released from prison as judge describes ‘deep malevolence bordering on sadism’