Court hears harrowing statements from households of Lucy Letby’s victims

The most prolific child serial killer in modern British history will spend the rest of her life in jail after decide Mr Justice Goss handed her a whole-life order at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.

The nurse was branded a “coward” for her refusal to appear in court to listen to the decide move sentence and the affect her actions had on the households of her victims.

Earlier, the households of Letby’s victims addressed an empty dock as they informed her “You are nothing” and “You are evil”.

Here is what every household stated throughout the sentencing:

– Child A and Child B

Letby was discovered responsible of the homicide of Child A after injecting air intravenously into the infant boy’s bloodstream.

Child B, the dual sister of Child A, additionally had air injected into her bloodstream by Letby. The nurse was convicted of her tried homicide.

In an announcement, the infants’ mom stated: “You thought it was your right to play God with our children’s lives.”

She stated that after the dying of Child A they feared for his or her second baby and made positive a member of the household was all the time together with her, however “made a mistake” and began to imagine what occurred to the primary baby was a “tragic event that couldn’t be stopped”.

She added: “Little did we know you were waiting for us to leave so you could attack the one thing that gave us a reason to carry on in life.”

In the assertion, made on behalf of herself and her associate, she stated: “Maybe you thought by doing this you would be remembered forever but I want you to know my family will never think of you again.

“From this day you are nothing.”

– Child C

Letby was discovered responsible of murdering Child C by forcing air down a feeding tube and into the infant boy’s abdomen.

Child C’s mom choked again tears as she informed Letby in her absence: “At least now there is no debate that, in your own words, you killed them on purpose. You are evil. You did this.”

She stated: “Lucy Letby, to think that you could get any kind of gratification from inflicting pain… and from watching our suffering in the aftermath goes against everything I believe it is to be human.

“I am horrified that someone so evil exists. To you, our son’s life was collateral damage in your persistent desire for drama, attention, praise and sympathy.”

The lady informed the courtroom: “I blame myself entirely for his death. I still live with the guilt that I couldn’t protect him during pregnancy or in his short life.”

She stated: “Knowing now that his murderer was watching us throughout these traumatic hours is like something out of a horror story.”

The lady referred to as him “my tiny, feisty boy – my first born, my son” and my “defenceless baby boy”.

– Child D

Letby was discovered convicted of the homicide of Child D after air was injected intravenously into the infant lady.

Child D’s mom of Child D informed the courtroom: “Lucy Letby had a chance to say something to us all, parents of the victims, and she had only one word – ‘unimaginable’.

“Her wicked sense of entitlement and abuse of her role as a trusted nurse is a scandal. Lucy Letby, you failed God and the plans he had for (Child D). You even called it fate. You were clearly disconnected with God.”

She stated that after her child’s dying she requested for her medical notes and had a gathering with docs and administration from the Countess of Chester Hospital.

She stated: “We got a solicitor and I wanted the police involved. At that stage I was told this was not a criminal matter so the police was out of the question.”

Per week earlier than the infant’s inquest was on account of happen she was informed they have been about to arrest somebody, she stated.

She added: “Thank God the police started their investigation.”

The child’s mom added: “We still have (Child D’s) death to declare officially and this could not be done until the cause of death had been agreed.

“This is going to be another difficult thing to do, going to the registrar and declaring our daughter’s death eight years after her birth.

“We wanted justice for (Child D) and that day has come.”

– Child E and Child F

The Crown stated Letby killed Child E with an injection of air into his bloodstream and in addition intentionally brought on bleeding to the infant boy. She was discovered responsible of his homicide.

The nurse was convicted of trying to homicide Child E’s twin brother with insulin.

The twins’ mom informed Manchester Crown Court: “The trial felt like a platform for Lucy to relive her crimes and it feels cruel that we had to endure a 10-month trial when she knew all along that she intentionally killed and harmed my babies.

“She has repeatedly disrespected my boy’s memory.”

She informed the courtroom: “Even in these final days of the trial she has tried to control things, the disrespect she has shown the families and the court show what type of person she is.

“We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell, just one final act of wickedness from a coward.”

The lady added: “I would like to thank Lucy for taking the stand and showing the court what she is really like once the ‘nice Lucy’ mask slips.

“It was honestly the best thing she could have done to ensure our boys got the justice they deserve.”

She stated: “We have been living a nightmare but, for me, it ends today. I refuse to wake up with my first thought be about my boys being harmed.

“Lucy no longer has control over our lives.

“She holds no power or relevance in anybody’s life. She is nothing.”

The lady stated her son who survived has been identified with extreme studying difficulties “which we believe is a result of being poisoned with a large quantity of insulin”.

She added: “I never allow him to be alone with medical professionals.”

– Child G

The Crown stated Letby focused Child G by overfeeding the infant lady with milk and pushing air down her feeding tube. She was discovered responsible of two counts of tried homicide and never responsible of 1 depend of the identical cost.

In an announcement, the daddy of Child G stated the infant had been born prematurely and the beginning of her life was a “bumpy road”.

He stated: “Every day I would sit there and pray. I would pray for God to save her. He did. He saved her, but the Devil found her.”

He stated their baby now has mind harm, is registered blind, and is fed by a tube.

Speaking about receiving the decision to say somebody had been arrested, he stated: “I just didn’t expect that.

“I just want it to be over now.”

– Child I

Letby was convicted of murdering Child I on the fourth try. She had given the infant lady air and overfed her with milk.

In an announcement learn to Manchester Crown Court, Child I’s mom stated: “I don’t think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured till she had no fight left in her and everything she went through over her short life was deliberately done by someone who was supposed to protect her and help her come home where she belonged.”

She outlined the massive affect the dying of her daughter has had on her and her husband.

“We were both absolutely broken that someone could do something so evil to our precious little girl and this has had a massive effect on our family even until this day,” she stated.

“We dug for years, trying to get answers for what had happened, and over the years we have been in some very dark places mentally.”

She stated: “(Her husband) wished he was dead, he wished it was him that died and not (Child I).”

The lady added: “When they handed (Child I) to us we never wanted to let her go, we held her so tight. She was our gorgeous little princess and I can’t even begin to explain the pain. When we lost her a part of us died with her.”

– Child L and Child M

The Crown stated Letby poisoned Child L with insulin, and the nurse was discovered responsible of trying to homicide the infant boy.

Letby was additionally convicted of the tried homicide of Child M, Child L’s twin brother, after injecting air into his bloodstream.

In an announcement learn to the courtroom, the infants’ father stated the nurse checked out him as he sat in courtroom.

He stated: “There was a day when I was at the trial and the public gallery was full and I was sat in Lucy Letby’s line of view and she kept looking over at me.

“That made me feel quite uncomfortable and uneasy and I had to move in the afternoon so I was out of her view.”

He stated the picture of his son collapsing was “forever etched” in his thoughts and the stress and pressure had been insufferable at occasions.

He stated: “Initially doctors told us that the whole events that took place in 2016 surrounding my children was normal for premature babies and we believed what the doctors were telling us at the time.

“Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.”

He stated he had been prescribed anti-depressants however stated: “Even though they have helped, they can never take away the feelings I have as a parent knowing now what had truly happened at the Countess of Chester in 2016, and it doesn’t make it any easier to cope with over time.”

– Child N

The Crown stated Letby inflicted trauma on Child N’s throat and in addition injected air into the infant boy’s bloodstream.

She was convicted of 1 depend of tried homicide however the jury was unable to achieve a verdict on two extra counts of the identical cost.

In an announcement learn to Manchester Crown Court, the mom of Child N, who survived, stated she all the time knew her son had been intentionally harmed.

She stated she felt “happy and relieved” when the police obtained in touch to say they have been investigating Letby as a result of “we felt like we were being listened to”.

“Finally we would receive some answers,” she stated.

“We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.”

The lady outlined the affect on her household “all because of the evil actions of someone else”.

She stated: “Our trust in people in a position of trust has been completely broken.”

– Child O and Child P

Letby was discovered responsible of murdering Child O. Prosecutors stated she attacked the boy triplet by injecting him with air, overfeeding him with milk and inflicting trauma to his liver with “severe force”.

The nurse was additionally convicted of murdering Child P, Child O’s triplet brother, by overfeeding him with milk, injecting air and dislodging his respiration tube.

In a pre-recorded assertion performed to the courtroom, the boys’ mom described being in a “state of shock” after two of her triplets have been murdered by Letby.

She stated she continues to be haunted by “vivid images” from the time and lives in “constant fear” of something taking place to her kids.

Speaking in regards to the trial, she stated: “Being within the courtroom environment was extremely harrowing. That was the first time I had seen Lucy Letby since 2016.”

She stated she sat behind a monitor so she was not in a direct line of sight and located the proof tough to hearken to.

She added: “Having to come to terms with the police investigation has made the past few years unbearable.”

She informed the courtroom Letby had been the final individual to carry Child P and she or he had dressed him after he died.

She added: “She has destroyed our lives.”