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Good Morning Britain hosts Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway have been criticised over their coverage of Lucy Letby's trial as the serial killer received a whole life order on Monday.
The serial killer nurse refused to attend her sentencing, highlighting that the court has no power to force a defendant to attend a sentencing under current laws.
GMB invited columnist Owen Jones and broadcaster Andrew Pierce to discuss whether she should have been forced to attend her sentencing before speaking to a criminal psychologist about what Lucy Letby's state of mind was likely like during her heinous crimes.
Yet some viewers were unimpressed over the way the sentencing was being covered, with one remarking: "@GMB think you have been very insensitive towards the families involved by doing this story. Let them grieve in peace," while another said: "Oh ffs enough already! Surely this story, important as it is, has been pulled apart right to the entrails."
ITV viewers weren't pleased with the discussions surrounding Lucy Letby (ITV)"Why are you spending another whole show milking this awful case ? Very macabre of you & comes across ratings grabbing. Leave this sort of thing to Channel 5 and Netflix guys! #GMB #LucyLetby," someone else shared and a fifth added: "Ghoulish #gmtv now - a psychologist who has never met someone analysing them from news snippets while Richard Madeley giggles. The editor should be ashamed. Kids were murdered - this shouldn't be entertainment."
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Speaking to Richard and Kate, criminal psychologist Dr David Holmes said of Lucy: "Unfortunately psychopathic individuals don't have two heads and they don't look like the monsters they portray on television or Netflix. They tend to be portraying normality and they learn very early on not to reveal their total callousness unless it's being useful, unless they want to bully someone. So it's very well hidden, it's a facade of normality which often goes with psychopathy."
The serial killer nurse was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison on Monday after being found guilty of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder six others, but she did not appear in the dock to hear the sentence handed down, the judge’s remarks or any of the statements from the victims’ families.