Lucy Letby's parents - from difficult birth to 'suffocating' family

dailyrecord.co.uk:

The doting parents of Lucy Letby still appear to be in complete denial over her wicked crimes as she launches an appeal against her convictions today.John and Susan Letby spent 10 months attending their serial child killer daughter's murder trial, where she was found guilty of targeting 17 babies between June 2015 and June 2016.She chose to cower in her cell, refusing to turn up at Manchester Crown Court to be sentenced for her crimes, while her parents also stayed away.

Their absence meant they did not hear the heart-wrenching words of the grief-stricken parents who had lost their babies at the hands of the 33-year-old, while she was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.The Mirror reports that like many, they are no doubt struggling to comprehend how someone so seemingly innocuous could commit such heinous crimes.

Or like many devoted parents, they refuse to believe it. It is not uncommon for killers to have a traumatic past, but Letby enjoyed an idyllic childhood where she was the apple of her parents' eyes.

They took thrice-yearly holidays together - even when Letby was an adult - and were resolutely by their daughter's side from the moment she was first linked to a sudden rise of infant deaths.