sophie reaper. any post—trial enquiry. sophie reaper . our any post—trial enquiry. sophie reaper. rt . sophie, you've been court. sophie, you've been following much of this trial. what a day for the baby's families. the jurors in court who have been told they will never have to do jury service again. quite understandably, after this . after this. >> well, this is the day we have all been waiting for that jury being sent back out on the 10th of july. so well over a month ago, they've had 22 days of deliberation . and today, of deliberation. and today, of course, being the 22nd to deliberate over those 22 counts on the indictment, 110 hours and 26 minutes, making it perhaps one of the longest jury deliberations in british judicial history. deliberations in british judicial history . and of course, judicial history. and of course, it's understandable , 22 counts it's understandable, 22 counts on the indictment for the jury to make their way through . one to make their way through. one by one, they , of course, lost by one, they, of course, lost one of the jurors to what the judge desc

. >> reporter sophie reaper sophie, you have been covering this case for the last ten months or so .e case will months or so. the case will resume . the judge will start resume. the judge will start making his remarks in the next few minutes. but the small thing must have been so emotion finally charged hearing those victims impact statements from the baby's families . the baby's families. >> it was indeed . and it was, as >> it was indeed. and it was, as we suspected, lucy letby refused to appear in court this morning as we heard those victim impact statements from the parents of each child . and the former nurse each child. and the former nurse has been found guilty of attacking . first of all, we attacking. first of all, we heard from the prosecution, nick johnson, kc . he suggested and johnson, kc. he suggested and submitted to the judge that lucy letby should indeed be awarded the whole life order. we then heard from benjamin myers, kc of the defence, and he said effectively there was nothing he could add in terms of mitigation. the jury had found her guilty of those various off

is sophie reaper. there are north—west of england. porter who we will be hearing rather a lot from throughout the course of this show. thank you. of this show. sophie, thank you. now to now i'm going to go to consultant psychologist consultant forensic psychologist , dr. kerry and think , dr. kerry nixon. and i think when we get cases like this, the psychology of it is a vital importance. dr. kerry, thank you very , very much. i am asking the very, very much. i am asking the question , does evil exist ? when question, does evil exist? when you see the picture of lucy letby, it is that evil. and the reason i'm asking is because reason why i'm asking is because of the mental health of of the mental health side of this several cases, this. in several of the cases, it suggested that letby it was suggested that letby attacked babies because attacked the babies because she wanted paediatrician wanted a married paediatrician to attention . there's to pay her attention. there's talk of narcissism , there's talk talk of narcissism, there's talk

reporter sophie reaper. england. reporter sophie reaper. ls in british history, has come to a definitive end. now and olivia pratt—korbel will spend the rest of her natural life in prison . of her natural life in prison. >> lucy letby will indeed spend the rest of her life in prison . the rest of her life in prison. patrick we came here today to manchester crown court . i manchester crown court. i started the proceedings at around 10 am. justice goss asked first the prosecution if there was anything he would like to say. and he said he did submit that lucy letby should face the full life tariff. he then asked the defence benjamin myers, kc, if he had anything to say , and he said, of course lucy say, and he said, of course lucy letby has said she is innocent this entire time, but that there was no mitigation. now that the jury was no mitigation. now that the jury had found her guilty on all of those seven murder charges and seven attempted murder charges, we then heard those witness impact statements. so harrowing, so moving there wasn't a d

so i shall start by going live to sophie reaper , who is in sophie reaper, who is in manchester for usd has all the very latest information. sophie, good evening. please bnng sophie, good evening. please bring my viewers up to speed with the goings on today. >> good evening to you, michelle. well, this trial, first of all, began back in october of last year. we are now ten months on from that point, the jury was sent out back on the jury was sent out back on the 10th of july, meaning they've had 22 days of deliberation , which some people deliberation, which some people may think is a very long time. but there were 22 counts on this indictment that lucy letby was facing . so i think that time was facing. so i think that time was warranted today. we are now able to report exactly what the jury have found. they found her guilty of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder. we should also say they also found her not guilty on two counts of attempted murder and also on six of the counts on the indictment. they were unable to come to a verdict and they were therefore left

i'm joined by sophie reaper gb news is north—west. hie, tell us exactly what the judge said and what the sentence is, please . sentence is, please. >> well, it's been an incredibly emotional day here today at manchester crown court hearing the victim impact statements this morning from the parent of each of the babies that lucy letby attacked. some incredibly poignant moments that left not a dry eye in the house. for example, the mother of child i, a young girl, a baby girl who was murdered by lucy letby, her mother said of her daughter. she was our gorgeous little princess and i can't even begin to explain the pain. when we lost her, a part of us died with her. we also heard from the father of child and child. p, of course, the highly discussed boys who were killed as part of a triplet set. he spoke of how he hit rock bottom and had considered taking his own life. he said lucy letby has destroyed our lives . the has destroyed our lives. the anger and hatred i have for her will never go away. it's destroyed me as a man and as a father

i'm joined by sophie reaper gb news is north—west. hie, tell us exactly what the judge said and what the sentence is, please . sentence is, please. >> well, it's been an incredibly emotional day here today at manchester crown court hearing the victim impact statements this morning from the parent of each of the babies that lucy letby attacked. some incredibly poignant moments that left not a dry eye in the house. for example, the mother of child i, a young girl, a baby girl who was murdered by lucy letby, her mother said of her daughter. she was our gorgeous little princess and i can't even begin to explain the pain. when we lost her, a part of us died with her. we also heard from the father of child and child. p, of course, the highly discussed boys who were killed as part of a triplet set. he spoke of how he hit rock bottom and had considered taking his own life. he said lucy letby has destroyed our lives . the has destroyed our lives. the anger and hatred i have for her will never go away. it's destroyed me as a man and as a father

reporter sophie reaper. sophie good evening to you. you just bring us up to speed your outside of manchester crown courts as we speak. just bring my viewers up to speed with the latest goings on of the day . on of the day. >> well, good evening to you. it's been an incredibly emotional day here today at manchester crown court. this morning, we heard those victim impact statements from the families of lucy let these victims some incredibly harrowing lines from those victims , impact statements, victims, impact statements, things like the parents of child a and child b, one of whom was murdered, one of whom lucy letby attempted to murder. they said we hope you have a very long life and spend every day suffering for what you've done. you are nothing. we also notably heard from the father of child own child p the two boys in a set of triplets who were both murdered. he spoke about hitting rock bottom and considering taking his own life . he said. taking his own life. he said. lucy letby has destroyed our lives. the anger and hatred i have

our northwest of england reporter sophie reaper, who's done a brilliant job. ie of covering this really distress case. the details, the harrowing accounts of the families that lost precious wants kid newborn poorly. babies has been quite something, hasn't it? what do we expect to happen today and what chance do you think there is of lucy letby being forced to appear to hear her sentencing . appear to hear her sentencing. >> well, it's been absolutely horrendous to describe it in one word. >> it seems almost improbable that it was over ten months ago that it was over ten months ago that we were here outside manchester crown court getting ready for the imminent lucy letby trial. we're now ten months on from that point, but what's even more improbable is that those families of her victims have had to wait since almost 20 15 seconds for some of them to receive this justice. now, we know that it's most likely lucy letby is looking at a whole life tariff. of course, when one becomes the most , most when one becomes the most, most prolific serial killer of children in

our northwest of england reports sophie reaper this reports sophie reaper has this reports sophie reaper has this report you . report for you. >> after a ten month long trial and 22 days of jury deliberation, we do now have those verdicts relating to lucy letby, the former nurse has been found guilty of seven murders related to child. a child . c related to child. a child. c child. d child . e child. i child child. d child. e child. i child 0 and child. p of course , those o and child. p of course, those names redacted for anonymity reasons . lucy letby was also reasons. lucy letby was also found guilty of seven attempted murders of child b child f two counts of attempting to murder child g child l child counts of attempting to murder child g child lchild m and child g child l child m and child. n they also found her not guilty of one count of attempting to murder child g and one count of attempting to murder child h on those other counts, of course , there were 22 counts, of course, there were 22 counts, of course, there were 22 counts on the original indictment. six of those, they were

reporter sophie reaper, who of course followed the legal process through the court and the process inf getting justice for the families has not stopped, it seems. sophie now, the doctors themselves who gave evidence, of course, in that court case wants no further . action >> absolutely. good afternoon to you both. now, we know that the staff on the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital were blowing the whistle against lucy letby as early as 2015. in fact , the first internal inquiry fact, the first internal inquiry into it came afterjust fact, the first internal inquiry into it came after just three fact, the first internal inquiry into it came afterjust three of into it came after just three of those murders with the nursing manager at the time tasked carrying out that review to try and work out exactly why that spike in the number of baby deaths had come . now, you deaths had come. now, you mentioned dr. brazier re there today. he has spoken out about exactly what he should what should happen. but back in 2016, after the death of lucy letby final victim, we know that he

development in the trial and gb news the lucy letby trial and gb news reporter joins us reporter sophie reaperie thank you very much. this is has indeed is a case that has indeed gnpped is a case that has indeed gripped the nation for a very, very long time. now, what is the very long time. now, what is the very latest, please ? very latest, please? >> well, the jury in this trial has now been deliberating for over 76 hours across those 22 counts that lucy letby, the former nurse, has been facing . former nurse, has been facing. >> now, this afternoon, we heard from judge justice goss in this trial that now on day 15, he would be offering the jury, the majority direction. now, what that means is until this point, the jury had been deliberating based on trying to come to unanimous verdicts. but now they'll be able to come to a majority verdict. now, that's made slightly more complex by the fact that last week the jury of 12 became a jury of 11. that's because one of the jurors, as the judge told us, had to drop out for what he called a good personal reason. now, what that means is with this new

committed to looking at that. >> our north west of >> well, our north west of england, reporter sophie reaper sophie says you won't be hearing what we were just hearing. >> there, of course, is the sentence of lucy letby today. but rather controversially, we don't expect that she'll appear in the dock today to face what justice goss has to say the past few days, for the last few verdicts. last week, she didn't appearin verdicts. last week, she didn't appear in the dock whatsoever when this was queried by the judge , the defence came back to judge, the defence came back to say that that was a decision that lucy letby had made, that she would no longer appear. she was refusing to appear in the dock. she she didn't want to face the victims families . she face the victims families. she didn't want to hear what justice goss would say to her when she received her sentencing today. of course , on friday, we brought of course, on friday, we brought you the news that she had been found guilty of seven murders and seven counts of attempted murder, making her the most prolific serial killer of children

i was talking to sophie reaper ah , northwest of sophie reaper ah, northwest of england.ce as if lucy letby is there talking almost to an empty chair. so perhaps lucy letby will one day watch that and sort of feel the effect of it. but certainly some big questions there. but it's not just lucy letby we're talking about today. we've also got a fascinating man by the name of oliver lawrence, not household name, but he's not a household name, but he's someone helped run the someone who helped run the australian government's offshore processing plant in nauru . so processing plant in nauru. so he's got some fascinating new guinea . guinea. >> that's to say, yeah, yeah, about how the australians run ran that facility and perhaps lessons that the united kingdom can learn that and one of the richest men in britain, john caldwell, the founder of phones for you , he gave half a million for you, he gave half a million to the tory party before the 2019 election. >> what does he think of the tories now? big questions. yes >> will we continue to donate to them? i mean, they like them?

as we've been discussing, sophie reaper is at the countess of chester hospital , where lucy's crimes and and has more on all of this. and sophie, i suppose it's not just the families who wanted this to be statutory inquiry which be a statutory inquiry which forces many of those health bosses into give evidence in this inquiry . bosses into give evidence in this inquiry. it's important for all of us to understand exactly what the decisions were and affect all of us. if not directly. this will be broadly a welcome decision by the government . government. >> absolutely. good morning to you both. i think going forward now, the most important thing, a lot of people will agree on is that this this kind of thing is never allowed to happen again. of course , we heard yesterday of course, we heard yesterday that the lucy letby inquiry will now be done on a statutory basis. but what exactly does that mean? well, first of all, it means a judge will be appointed as the chair of the inquiry and therefore , going inquiry and therefore, going forward, they will have legal powers to compel witnesses