U.K. nurse Lucy Letby handed life sentence for murder of 7 babies

The judge said Lucy Letby had 'no remorse' and committed her crimes with a 'deep malevolence bordering on sadism.'

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British former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment on Monday for the murder of seven infants and the attempted murders of six other babies at a hospital in northern England.

Judge James Goss handed Letby, 33, the most severe sentence possible under British law, a whole-life order, which ensures Letby will remain in prison until her death. She will not be given the possibility of parole.

Letby is the fourth-ever woman to be given this sentence in the U.K., according to the BBC.

Before her sentencing, Goss, of the Manchester Crown Court, said Letby orchestrated a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children.”

He told the court that Letby, who was found guilty on Friday, had “no remorse” and committed her crimes with a “deep malevolence bordering on sadism.”

“Loving parents have been robbed of their cherished children and others have to live with the physical and mental consequences of your actions. Siblings have been deprived of brothers and sisters,” the judge said. “You have caused deep psychological trauma, brought enduring grief and feelings of guilt, caused strains in relationships and disruption to the lives of all the families of all your victims.”

Letby targeted her victims while she was a neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital from June 2015 to June 2016. She and her lawyers maintain her innocence.