When life means life: Child serial killer Lucy Letby to spend rest of her days behind bars with no hope of earning parole

The nurse who murdered seven newborn babies at Chester hospital could find ‘prisoners may want to get closer to her but for the wrong reasons’

Child killer Lucy Letby moments after she was arrested. Photo: Cheshire Constabulary/PA

Sarah Rainey Telegraph.co.uk Tue 22 Aug 2023 at 03:30







Five years have passed since Lucy Letby was first arrested at her home in Chester. Police banged on the door at 6am on a July morning in 2018, leading the killer nurse away in handcuffs as her father looked on.