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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A killer refuses to hear her sentence