‘My arms felt so painfully empty’: parents of Lucy Letby’s victims tell court of their loss

The murderer would not appear in the dock, as families told of lives turned upside down by horror and grief

Their words were delivered through tears and trembling hands to a courtroom that, for 10 long months, had choked back the trauma of these horrors. This was the first time the parents of Lucy Letby’s victims had been able to express their grief.

The details were harrowing. A triplet boy, now seven, who asks his parents what happened to his two murdered brothers. The mother who, desperate to hold her dying newborn daughter, could only cling to her tiny foot as doctors tried in vain to save her life.

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