![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/lucy-letbys-major-decision-her-parents-hated-as-baby-killer-says-it-was-suffocating/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_JS156472410.jpg&description=Lucy Letby's parents attended every day of her 10-month trial, and were so determined to hear all the evidence against their daughter that they relocated to Manchester from Hereford Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order this week for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more while working as a nurse. In what was branded a "cowardly" move, the 33-year-old refused to face her victims' families in court for sentencing as they read out statements telling how she tore their lives apart. Her parents, Susan and Jonathan Letby, also chose not to attend - despite going to every day of the 10-month trial. They were so determined to hear all the evidence against their daughter that they relocated to Manchester from Hereford, on the England-Wales border. The pair have been quick to leap to their daughter's defence - it was they who she leaned on when she had a key meeting with hospital bosses in January 2017. The parents went alongside their daughter, claiming that she was being bullied and victimised on the neonatal unit, after two senior doctors raised the alarm. Letby's mum was reportedly distraught when she was arrested – wailing, crying and even telling police: "I did it, take me instead," in a desperate bid to protect her. Investigators suspect Letby had told them very little details of her horrific crimes before they were laid out in front of them in court. As the guilty verdicts were returned, Mrs Letby broke down into tears which continued even after she had left the court. At one point she cried out: "You can't be serious. This cannot be right." The Letbys were a close-knit family and her parents were understandably proud when their daughter became the first in their wider family to go to university and move away from home. But her trial heard that Mr Letby, now 77 and Mrs Letby, 63, came to "hate it" when she did not return home after her graduation and that made her feel "constantly guilty". Messaging a friend who had joked about emigrating to New Ze){kind=link}
Lucy Letby’s parents attended every day of her 10-month trial, and were so determined to hear all the evidence against their daughter that they relocated to Manchester from Hereford
Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order this week for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more while working as a nurse.
In what was branded a “cowardly” move, the 33-year-old refused to face her victims’ families in court for sentencing as they read out statements telling how she tore their lives apart. Her parents, Susan and Jonathan Letby, also chose not to attend – despite going to every day of the 10-month trial.
They were so determined to hear all the evidence against their daughter that they relocated to Manchester from Hereford, on the England-Wales border. The pair have been quick to leap to their daughter’s defence – it was they who she leaned on when she had a key meeting with hospital bosses in January 2017.
The parents went alongside their daughter, claiming that she was being bullied and victimised on the neonatal unit, after two senior doctors raised the alarm. Letby’s mum was reportedly distraught when she was arrested â wailing, crying and even telling police: “I did it, take me instead,” in a desperate bid to protect her.