Britain's worst child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison.
But the former neonatal nurse refused to appear in court to hear either victim statements or the judge handing down a whole-life sentence.
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.
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