Watch the moment Lucy Letby is jailed for the rest of her life

This is the moment child serial killer Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order in court.

Letby was convicted by a jury of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016. Mr Justice Goss described her as 'calculated and cunning' as he jailed her for the rest of her life.

Addressing the nurse, he said: “You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions.

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“The babies you harmed were born prematurely and some were at risk of not surviving but in each case you deliberately harmed them, intending to kill them.”

The judge told her she would be provided copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the families of her victims. Earlier today, Letby refused to enter the dock again as her victims' families read out heartbreaking statements.

The families told the killer 'you are nothing' and described her as 'evil' and a 'disconnected from God'. The mother of Child E, a premature-born boy who died, and Child F, his twin brother who survived, told the court the nurse’s refusal to appear was 'just one final act of wickedness from a coward'.

Letby has become only the fourth woman in UK history to be told she will never be released from prison. These include the girlfriend of Moors murderer Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, who died in 2002, and serial killers Rose West and Joanna Dennehy.

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