Lucy Letby lawyers to reveal ‘new medical evidence’ as killer applies for potential miscarriage of justice review
Lucy Letby’s lawyers are set to reveal “new medical evidence” to suggest that the convicted child serial killer is not to blame for the deaths of seven babies.
They intend to argue that the children’s deaths were at the fault of “bad medical care” and that their client had suffered a miscarriage of justice.
Letby, 35, is currently serving 15 whole life prison sentences following her convictions of killing seven babies and attempting to murder seven more between June 2015 and June 2016.
She was working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital while she carried out the offences.
Canadian neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee said that a team of 14 neonatologists had reviewed each murder case that led to the conviction and had subsequently identified flaws in the prosecution’s evidence in each case.
He said: “There was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing death or injury in any of the 17 cases at the trial.
“Death or injury of all the infants were due to natural causes or medical care.”
His statement came at the same time that Letby’s lawyers applied for a review led by the Criminal Cases Review Commission into whether her case was possibly a miscarriage of justice.
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Lawyer Mark McDonald said: “What we have just heard and what will be in the report is overwhelming evidence that this conviction is unsafe and must be urgently referred back to the Court of Appeal.”
He added: “The reason why Lucy Letby was convicted was because of the medical evidence that was presented to the jury. That today has been demolished.”
Lee said that he would provide evidence to the review, saying: “I hope our findings bring comfort and closure to the families to the affected infants and our hearts and sympathies go out to them.”
He claimed that there was “no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing death or injury in any of the 17 cases at the trial”.
Assisting the murderer’s legal team, MP David Davis said that her convictions were “one of the major injustices of modern times”.
A CCRC spokesperson said: “We are aware that there has been a great deal of speculation and commentary surrounding Lucy Letby’s case, much of it from parties with only a partial view of the evidence.
“We ask that everyone remembers the families affected by events at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.”
The spokesman added that it was not the role of the CCRC to “determine innocence or guilt in a case”, and said that it was a “matter for the courts”.
The application will now be assessed to allow the body to determine whether there was suitable new evidence that presented a reasonable chance that her conviction might be overturned.