She will be joining a very small list with West and Hindley as a female prisoner who will die in prison and never get released.
For such a heinous crime she should absolutely be there to hear her sentencing, even if she has to be manhandled there, she showed no mercy in her actions why should the court. Its part of the punishment and she should have to face the relatives,
Mixed feelings on that , you dont want the sentencing turned into a circus , an alternative would be to have them in a cell on camera with proceedings piped in
Exactly. The poor babies deaths were not optional. Hopefully she will have a very uncomfortable life inside for the rest of her days.
It shouldn't be OPTIONAL for goodness sake it's absolutely horrendous what she has done ,MAKE her go to court what can she do sue the court/ police. Imagine how them poor families must feel, bang her up and throw the key away - for good!!!
As the secret barrister article posted above mentions, if a convict in this situation wants to disrespect the court and the families of the victims, they will regardless. If you drag her there unwilling, what kind of stink would she kick up in the dock? What is she going to say or do to get out of there? Do the families deserve a frenzied circus? It is of course despicable that she refuses to attend and face what is coming, but it is quite clear there’s little they can do about it. As for her sentencing, I concur that a whole life tariff seems the right option. The judge may not, but I hope at the very least he imposes a tariff of more than 50 years so that she won’t have any opportunity to get parole before old age and which gives a very realistic chance of her never being released at all. I’ll look out for what Mr Justice James Goss comments and imposes.
This is all horrendous. Those poor families. It must be devastating enough to go through the death of a baby, but to then learn that it was at the hands of someone you trusted to look after your baby is just, well, I just cannot imagine what they went through. And for her to be able to avoid having to stand there in person, when the sentence is dished out, is a final kick in the teeth. With regard to how long it took before they stopped Letby from working and did something about all this, it all sounds very familiar. I’m a qualified paediatric nurse and can tell you that when I was working in the NHS* it was very difficult for nurses to get struck off. I could tell you a few horror stories, but I’ll just tell you about a paediatric nurse in Brighton. She had gone crackers (not the actual medical diagnosis) and was a repeated visitor to the A&E where I was working. She was still worki;g inbetween hospital visits, but was eventually suspended when she’d started getting admitted with raging sores on her legs after injecting dog faeces under her skin (probably one of the most disgusting things I’ve been presented with at the triage desk!). She was finally struck off after she’d fallen out the window in the hospital, trying to ‘walk’ across to another ward, I.e. walk through the air! Fortunately she was on a first floor ward, so didn’t fall very far. She must have landed on her side, cos I remember she shattered her pelvis. *I quit my last permanent NHS job when Barnsley got promoted to the Premier League, cos I was fed up of my mates in the London branch having every Saturday off, whilst I usually had to beg colleagues to swap shifts so I could get to matches. I managed to get the Saturday off for the Bradford game, but had it gone to the Oxford game to get promotion I could not get anyone to swap, and as I’d asked everybody I couldn’t even chuck a sickie cos they’d know, so I foresaw big problems for the Premiership season. Only one thing for it, I joined an agency and ended up working on just about every ward in Great Ormond Street, instead of A&E, where I had worked permanently since qualifying. I hated working on wards. The things you do for Barnsley Football Club!
As I said the other day I believe that whatever sentence she gets will prove short-lived. There will be plenty of other “lifers” in there only too willing to stick a knife in her, even if she is protected in some way by the system. Good riddance when that happens.
reported that when Letby was working and one of the baby alarms went off the other nurses would often comment ' Letby must be on duty' Do you think that other nurses were aware of what was going on but were too 'frightened' to raise concerns or if they did they were not listened to ??
Personally anybody who refuses to stand in the Dock at there trial should have there sentenced increased by a matter of percentage to there sentence
I know what you mean, I just think those poor families have the right to see her wrong doings hammered into her mind, and hopefully see the enormity of her crimes hit home.
Rose West and Beverley Allitt are still alive. Admittedly the latter in a hospital environment rather than prison. I’m not an advocate of the death penalty nor do I encourage further violent crime but I’ll admit I’d cry no tears if she did meet her end in this way - but I’d sooner her be locked up miserable in the knowledge that she’s never going to be released; that she’s going to be locked up until her death. And for that to take 50+ years. Quick death is too good for her anyway.
