Neonatal nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more
We are now hearing victim impact statements on behalf of the families. They are being read out by Philip Astbury KC, one of the prosecutors. The mother of Child A, who was murdered, and her twin sister, Child B, who Letby tried to kill, says 2015 was “going to be the best year of our lives … everything was perfect”. She adds:
Never could we have imagined that the most previous things in our lives would be placed in such harm in the care of a nurse.
Our minds are so traumatised that it won’t let us remember the night you killed our child. What should have been the happiest night of our lives became our worst.
After losing Child A, we made sure that there was always a member of their family at the side of his twin sister Child B. However, we made a mistake.
You thought it was your right to play God with our lives. Our lives are tough. We struggle with depression, anxiety and PTSD. We sometimes want to give up but we never will … we have a duty to give [Child B] the best life possible and we will spend our lives doing that.
We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering forever … We will never think of you again from this day. You are nothing.
These are deeply distressing events and we recognise that, as we have throughout the trial.
There is nothing that we are able to add in mitigation that is capable of reducing the sentence that will be passed or the minimum term the court will impose. For those reasons I am unable to add upon, and will not, those matters that have been put before the court already.
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