A killer refuses to hear her sentence

The UK's murderous nurse Lucy Letby refuses to attend court to hear her sentence, reigniting calls for criminals to be forced into the dock. Plus - why an Italian banker left his fiancée during their engagement party and a 19th century sport is under threat of extinction.

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