Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials at Manchester crown court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.
Asked if he had reconsidered his previous comments that speculation on the former nurse’s innocence was “crass and insensitive”, after an expert panel determined there was no medical evidence to support her conviction, he told LBC radio: “It is still the case that Lucy Letby is convicted of the crimes she was accused of.
She lost two attempts last year to challenge her convictions at the court of appeal – in May for seven murders and seven attempted murders, and in October for the attempted murder of a baby girl which she was convicted of by a different jury at a retrial.
The panel, which included Prof Neena Modi, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, concluded that the newborns whom Letby was charged with harming had suffered a catalogue of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.
He said people who thought there had been an unsafe or wrong conviction should “consider those grieving parents who’ve lost their babies”, and pursue legal routes to have her case looked at again because it was “not a political campaign, it’s a legal process”.
