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UK's most prolific child killer Lucy Letby will die in jail after being ordered to spend the rest of her life behind bars for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more

Evil killer Lucy Letby joins more than 60 other callous criminals serving whole life sentences behind bars for their heinous crimes. The former nurse was handed the order after murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others

Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon took the role of Sarah Platt's daughter in 2015 - but she wasn't the first actress to be cast in the returning part on the ITV soap

Over a dozen relatives of victims sat in the public gallery for today's sentencing hearing, which saw Lucy Letby handed a whole-life order for murdering seven babies and trying to murder six more

Lucy Letby has become the fourth woman in British history to be given a whole-life jail sentence so she will die behind bars for killing seven defenceless babies in her care

Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in jail, with no chance of release, after she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another six in a harrowing year-long killing spree

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

Evil nurse Lucy Letby, 33, has been handed down a whole-life tariff for killing seven babies as she worked at Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit in Chester

The This Morning hosts discussed the nurse, who was convicted of murdering seven premature babies and attempting to murder six more while working at The Countess of Chester Hospital

Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced today after she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others follow a ten month trial and jurors deliberating for over 110 hours. But she has refused to attend court

The Lucy Letby case has shocked the world in recent days, but the murderous nurse is not the nation's first lone-acting female serial killer - nor is she the most prolific

Due to concerns about damaging its reputation, the Countess of Chester hospital delayed calling police for months, while senior management took killer nurse Lucy Letby's side over that of doctors, it is reported

Following Lucy Letby's conviction for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more, Detective Sergeant Danielle Stonier told how interviewing the killer nurse felt "intense" and "challenging" at times

After spending more than a decade on death row, US serial killer Aileen Wuornos vowed to return seconds before she was given a lethal injection in 2002

Evil nurse Lucy Letby was yesterday sentenced to multiple murders in one of the most harrowing cases the UK has ever seen. Her parents sat through every day of her nine-month trial - but who are they?

It is horrific to now know parents were placing their children in the arms of a serial killer, and we may never know what drove her to commit some of worst crimes known

Nurse Beverley Allitt was jailed for life for murdering four children, the attempted murders of three others, and causing GBH to six more - 30 years before Lucy Letby case

Professor Mike Berry, of Liverpool’s John Moores University says there are many similarities between killed nurses Lucy Letby and Beverley Allitt, who was jailed for life in 1991

David Wilson is an emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University who has researched nurses who kill. Here, he tells the Mirror what he thinks of Lucy Letby's case

Delving into the fascinating world of true crime, TV psychologist Emma Kenny reveals why people are so obsessed with serial killers and whether she thinks it's possible to be 'born evil'

Jack P Shepherd - who plays David Platt - has teased how serial killer Stephen Reid will make his huge exit from the ITV soap

Bryant "Eduardo" Rivera, likened to Ted Bundy, faces investigation into a fourth woman's death with chilling similarities to his three prior alleged murders

Coronation Street fans were left confused on Friday's episode as Rufus Donahue's wife, Lou, suddenly got suspicious about her husband's death

Serial killer Robert Pickton killed 49 women at his isolated farm and fed some to his pigs and some to butcher's shop customers - some were even sold to police investigating the case

Channel 5's documentary, The Child Snatcher: Manhunt, reveals how police caught evil serial killer Robert Black red-handed before he had the chance to strike again