An international panel of experts claim they have "significant new medical evidence" in the case of convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby. Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted 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. The babies were attacked by various means while she worked as a nurse on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

One of her methods was injecting air into the bloodstream which caused an air embolism that blocked the blood supply and led to sudden and unexpected collapses. But today, retired neonatal expert Dr Shoo Lee claimed a panel of 14 experts believed that the newborns had died from a mixture of natural causes and bad medical care - and that there were "no murders". He said: "Our conclusions of this panel therefore was that there was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing death or injury in any of the 17 cases in the trial. Death or injury of all the affected infants were due either to natural causes or to errors in medical care.".

The panel was chaired by Tory MP and former Brexit secretary Sir David Davis, who recently called for a retrial and today branded the Letby case as "one of the major injustices of modern times". Lucy Letby was found guilty by a jury in 2023 after a combination of medical and non-medical evidence heard she had deliberately harmed babies in her care. Read our live blog to see how the press conference went and all the latest reaction...

Lucy Letby's lawyer has provided an update on the serial killer's life behind bars amid renewed questions over her convictions. Speaking to LBC's Shelagh Fogerty on Wednesday, criminal barrister Mr McDonald said he was being regularly questioned on Letby's current status behind bars. "What I keep being asked by media is how is Lucy?" he told the show. "I don't think it's fair on her," he said. Read more on this here.

We've heard plenty from thoday's panel, but what in fact was the 'new' evidence presented?. Retired neonatologist Dr Lee disclosed the new medical evidence at a press conference in London today. It's all over an academic paper Dr Lee co-authored over three decades ago which was used in the trial to help convict Letby. But he has earlier reportedly told how the evidence “wasn’t quite right”. The assembled experts looked at all 17 babies Letby is accused of harming, in half a dozen different ways, he explained. In a forensic account, he today disclosed the findings of some of those cases.

Find out more here. The jury spent 22 days and more than 96 hours deliberating the string of charges levelled against the nurse. In August 2023, they found her guilty of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. Verdicts were not reached on six counts of attempted murder. She was retried on one count of attempted murder in July 2024 and found guilty. Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life prison orders meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison. In May 2024, she was refused leave to appeal by three high court judges. Dame Victoria Sharp, Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert declined to give the go-ahead for the challenge.

Dame Victoria said: “Having heard her application, we have decided to refuse leave to appeal on all grounds and refuse all associated applications. A full judgment will be handed down in due course.”. Downing Street declined to comment on an application by convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby to have her case reviewed. Asked whether Sir Keir Starmer thought she was guilty, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “This was a truly horrendous case that shocked the nation. A criminal trial has taken place and Lucy Letby was found guilty.

“There is, of course, an established process through the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which is independent of Government, and the commission has today confirmed they have received an application from Ms Letby’s legal team. “We wouldn’t get drawn on that independent process.”. Dr Shoo Lee said the panel of experts he had convened to look at LucyLetby’s case, were all independent and none had been paid.

He said they looked at all 17 babies Letby is accused of harming, in six different ways. Dr Lee said he would speak about some of the babies, citing baby one, a pre-term boy who collapsed two days after being born, with skin discolouration noted and who did not respond to resuscitation. He said the allegation against Letby was that she injected air into his veins causing his collapse and death. Dr Lee said the prosecution in the trial used a paper he had authored in 1989, but he said he had made a distinction between air in veins and air in arteries.