UK nurse Lucy Letby has been sentenced to a life term with no chance of parole for what Justice James Goss described as a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder”. After being found guilty of murdering 7 babies and the attempted murder of 6 more, Letby is the UK’s most prolific child serial killer in modern times. Her trial – which ran for 10 months – is believed to be its longest murder trial. Letby didn’t attend the sentencing hearing or follow proceedings via a videolink. That means she missed the families’ victim impact statements and Justice Goss’s sentencing remarks. He said Letby had “no remorse… there are no mitigating factors… the offences are of sufficient severity to require a whole life order”. Letby’s ability to opt out of attending the hearing has drawn new calls for laws to force convicted criminals to be present for sentencing – something UK PM Rishi Sunak says is being considered.