“Lucy Letby! On each of the seven offences of murder and the seven offences of attempted murder, I sentence you to imprisonment for life. Because the seriousness of your offences is exceptionally high, I direct that the early release provisions do not apply. The order of the court, therefore, is a whole life order on each and every offence and you will spend the rest of your life in prison,” UK Justice James Goss said on Monday while sentencing Letby.

Justice Goss directed to hand over the written order to Letby as she refused to leave her cell and appear before the court while the court gave the verdict, Daily Mail reported.

She became the fourth woman to receive a whole life order after Myra Hindley, Rose West and triple killer Joanna Dennehy.

Letby, 33, murdered five baby boys and two baby girls at the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester hospital in northern England over 13 months from 2015, injecting the infants with insulin or air or force-feeding them milk.

The 33-year-old nurse was on trial at Manchester Crown Court for the past seven months.

During an earlier appearance before the court, she confirmed having cared for hundreds of babies between 2015 and 2016, she was asked by her lawyer, Ben Myers, if she ever wanted to hurt them.

“No, that’s completely against being what a nurse is,” Letby replied.

Notes

One note, written in capital letters, read “I am evil I did this”.

Another stated: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them. I am a horrible evil person”.

Asked about the notes in court, Letby said she wrote the latter one “because I felt at the time I had done something wrong”.

“I thought I’m such an awful, evil person… that I had made mistakes and not known,” she added, noting that being removed from the neo-natal unit had affected her mental health.

Myers questioned what exactly it was that she thought she had done.

“That somehow I had been incompetent and I had done something wrong to affect these babies. I felt I must be responsible in some way,” Letby responded.