Lucy Letby: Should the guilty be forced to face their victims in court?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
One of the baby victims' mothers has called Letby's defiance a "final act of wickedness from a coward".
On the Sky News Daily, Sky News‘ home editor Jason Farrell discusses if defendants should be forced to face their victims in court. He speaks to legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg and Farah Naz, the aunt of Zara Aleena who was murdered in 2022. Farah Naz was forced to give her victim statement to an empty dock when her niece's killer refused to appear.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:32.2 | home editor and on this Sky News Daily, Lucy Lettby has been jailed for the rest of her life for the murder |
| 0:39.1 | and the attempted murder of babies in her care. Now, before Lettby was sentenced, the court |
| 0:45.6 | heard statements from the victim's parents. The mom of one of the murdered babies, known as Child |
| 0:52.2 | A, wrote, little did we know you were waiting for us to leave |
| 0:57.4 | so that you could attack the one thing that gave us a reason to carry on in life. |
| 1:03.8 | Maybe you thought by doing this you would be remembered forever. |
| 1:07.8 | But I want you to know my family will never think of you again. From this day, |
| 1:14.6 | you are nothing. Another parent spoke for herself saying, my arms, my heart, my life all felt so |
| 1:23.8 | painfully empty. |
| 1:33.6 | Lucy Lettby wasn't in court to hear any of these statements. |
| 1:37.6 | She refused to go to the dock, to hear the parents directly. |
| 1:43.1 | A mum said that was one final act of wickedness from a coward. |
| 1:52.6 | So the question obviously is, should Lucy Lettby be forced to come to the dock? |
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