NO one who has followed the hideous detail of nurse Lucy Letby’s trial would say it is fair that she be allowed to miss her own sentencing yesterday.
Yet it happened. She stayed in the cell at the court complex, refused to go up to the dock and the judge began and concluded her sentencing without her.
Victim impact statements from the heartbroken families were read to an empty dock and the judge passed 14 whole life sentences. She heard none of it.
For my family, this cowardice from a convicted killer is all too familiar.
This is just another way for the offender to spit in the face of the law and take power from victims and their family.