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What’s the point of forcing murderers like Lucy Letby into the dock?

31 August 2023

11:03 PM

31 August 2023

11:03 PM

We all recoiled when Lucy Letby, a nurse of all things, was convicted of killing seven babies in cold blood. But this murderess had one more card up her sleeve. When called to court for the last time to receive the inevitable sentence – not only life, but in her case whole-life – she casually declined to appear.

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