She told her legal team she did not want to return to the dock.
‘The court has no power to force a defendant to attend at a sentencing hearing, therefore there is nothing I can do in relation to that.’
It came after his predecessor, Dominic Raab, promised to act while under pressure over the non-attendance of the killers of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Zara Aleena and Sabina Nessa to stop offenders convicted of the most serious crimes dodging court and avoiding facing justice. Jurors spent more than 100 hours deliberating over the course of 22 days before convicting her of seven counts of murder following a trial which lasted a mammoth 10 months.
Letby was found to have harmed or sabotaged her victims in various ways, including injecting them with air to cause a fatal embolism, overfeeding milk, interfering breathing tubes, or physically assaulting them.
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