"All I ever wanted to be was a mum": The heartbreaking statements read by distraught families at Lucy Letby's sentencing

The distraught parents of Lucy Letby's victims read out heartbreaking statements in court today ahead of her sentencing - describing her as 'evil' and 'disconnected from God'.

The families told the killer 'you are nothing' as the child murderer refused to appear in court for sentencing. Some sobbed as they read out their devastating statements to Mr Justice Goss, who will hand down Letby's sentence at Manchester Crown Court later.

She faces a whole life order for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016. More than a dozen relatives of Letby’s victims sat in the public gallery for the hearing on Monday and eight jurors returned to see the sentencing.

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Below are the heartbreaking statements read in court by the victim's families.

The mother of Child A, who was murdered by Letby, and Child B, who she attempted to kill, had a statement read in court on behalf of her and her partner.

In full, the statement said: "2015 was going to be the best year of our lives we were going to become parents to [our babies]. Everything was perfect our babies were doing well in the neonatal unit. We were told that [our baby] needed a little bit of extra help but was doing well and that [other baby] was very strong and doing really well.

"Never could we have imagined that the most precious things in our lives would have been placed in harm’s way and in the care of a nurse, who is capable of such despicable actions.

"We never got to hold [our baby] while [they] were alive because you took [them] away. Our minds are traumatised that it won’t let us