Judge tells Lucy Letby she has 'deprived children of their siblings'

Lucy Letby will die behind bars after a judge sentenced her to a whole life order today - as the killer nurse cowered in her cell rather than face the bereaved relatives whose lives she has ruined.

The most prolific child serial killer in modern British history is only the fourth woman to receive a whole life order after Myra Hindley, Rose West and triple murderer Joanna Dennehy.

Her decision not to attend court to hear her fate was branded 'the final act of wickedness from a coward' - and prompted yet more calls for new laws to force criminals to come to the dock.

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