Eamonn Holmes slams evil serial killer nurse Lucy Letby for not appearing in court

Twisted child killer Lucy Letby will die in prison after being given a whole life order for the murder of seven babies and attempting to kill six more while working as a neonatal nurse

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Eamonn Holmes says Lucy Letby has ‘forfeited’ any human rights

Eamonn Holmes says baby killer Lucy Letby ‘forfeited’ any of her human rights when the nurse refused to appear in court for her sentencing today.

The 33-year-old was given a whole life order after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more. In a final act of cowardice, Letby refused to show up for the hearing at Manchester Crown Court after choosing to remain in her cell for several of the guilty verdicts, sparking renewed calls for a law to force criminals to face justice in person.

Discussing the sentencing hearing today on GB News with investigations consultant Oliver Laurence, Eamonn, 63, said the “new trend” for defendants to be allowed to miss their sentencing is “something that should be really hit on the head and not tolerated” after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called Letby “cowardly’ for not going to court.

Eamonn Holmes says serial killer, Lucy Letby, has ‘forfeited’ any of her human rights after the nurse refused to appear in court (

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Mr Laurence said: “As a Western democracy we have some level of human rights, which is important to remember as a fundamental. “Reasonable force obviously has to be proportionate.” However, Eamonn said he felt Letby’s human rights “goes out of the window for me. That wasn’t reasonable for us in what she did in murdering those children,” he said. “I think she’s forfeited any rights.”

The Crown Prosecution Service has been advised they can use reasonable force to get prisoners to attend their sentencing, where they would have to face their victims across the court and hear their statements. It comes after Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer, Thomas Cashman, also failed to turn up for his sentencing in Liverpool in April.

Law enforcement expert Mr Laurence said he believed Letby “should have to come up” and said ‘reasonable force’ may mean they could have ‘handcuffed or dragged her up’.

During the hearing, Mr Justice Goss told the court in the depraved nurse’s absence: “There was premeditation, calculation and cunning in your actions”, saying that a “great majority” of her victims “suffered acute pain”.

He also said Letby “relished” being in the intensive care unit where she took an interest in “uncommon” complications and targeted twins and triplets. The judge added the defendant prided herself on her professionalism, which enabled her to start harming children without suspicion.

Letby was given a whole life order after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more (

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The twisted child killer was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit when she went on her year-long killing spree, joining the list of the UK’s most depraved serial killers, including the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and the so-called Angel of Death paediatric nurse Beverley Allitt.

Letby, from Hereford, stood trial after being accused of deliberately harming the infants in various ways, including by injecting air intravenously and administering air and/or milk into the stomach via nasogastric tubes. It was also claimed by the prosecution she added insulin as a poison to intravenous feeds, interfered with breathing tubes, and inflicted trauma in some cases.

She will now face the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order, becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.