Lucy Letby, a British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more, has been sentenced to life in prison.

The 33-year-old killed the newborns between 2015 and 2016 while working as a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England.

According to Al Jazeera, she killed the babies by overfeeding them with milk, poisoning them with insulin, or injecting them with air.

Letby refused to appear in court and also reportedly refused to follow the hearing via videolink, from prison.

She has been on trial since October.

While she repeatedly denied harming the children, the prosecution described her as a “calculating” woman who used methods of killing that “didn’t leave much of a trace”.

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