Now, as the UK's most prolific child killer Letby joins a list of other killer women who were told they would never be released from prison
Serial child killer Lucy Letby has become one of the few female murderers in the UK who will die behind bars after being given a whole life sentence.
On Monday, August 21 Letby was handed a whole life term for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. She is the fourth woman to receive such a sentence - which is the maximum a British judge can deliver. The body of one of their victims Keith Bennett has never been found after the killers refused to reveal where his remains were dumped.
However, in 1997, Home Secretary Jack Straw decided that West should receive the maximum sentence - a whole life tariff meaning she would never be eligible for parole. Joanne Dennehy The last woman before Letby to receive the maximum sentence was Joanne Dennehy, who murdered three men in what came to be known as the Peterborough Ditch Murders.All the men were killed over the course of 10 days up to March 29, 2013 - she also stabbed two other men who survived their injuries. She stood trial in November 2013 at the Old Bailey where, unlike Letby, she entered guilty pleas to the charges she faced.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Hospital boss accused of shutting Lucy Letby concerns takes £1.5m NHS pensionTony Chambers bought a Grade II-listed home in Greater Manchester a year before leaving the Countess
Read more »
Head of Lucy Letby's hospital left NHS with £1.5m pension potTony Chambers was chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital
Read more »
Lucy Letby: Police urged to probe hospital bosses for corporate manslaughterHospital executives were ‘grossly negligent’ for not acting on complaints about the killer nurse with greater urgency, it has been claimed.
Read more »
Lucy Letby: Police urged to probe hospital bosses for corporate manslaughterHospital executives were ‘grossly negligent’ for not acting on complaints about the killer nurse with greater urgency, it has been claimed.
Read more »