Lucy Letby news conference: Watch as baby killer's lawyers give update
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The legal team standing behind killer nurse Lucy Letby are holding a press conference this afternoon in which they claim to have "new evidence, which significantly undermines the convictions". Letby, 34, from Hereford, is currently serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, between June 2015 and June 2016. She was banned from nursing and struck off the register at a NMC fitness to practise hearing in December 2023.
Letby's lawyer, Mark McDonald, said her defence team were immediately looking for permission from the Court of Appeal "to take the exceptional, but necessary, decision to apply to reopen the Appeal of Lucy Letby and immediately review all her convictions." He went on to explain: "In August 2023 Lucy Letby was convicted in the Crown Court at Manchester after a trial lasting over 10 months of 7 counts of mu7rder and 7 counts of attempted murder. On May 24, 2024, the matter was before the Court of Appeal where all applications for leave to appeal were refused.
"The primary ground of appeal at the previous hearings related to the admissibility before the jury of the evidence of the lead prosecution expert Dr Dewi Evans. The defence argued twice at trial that the evidence of Dr Evans should be disregarded. This was refused by the trial judge.
"The defence's main ground of appeal in the Court of Appeal was the reliability of Dr Evans. The appeal was refused. Remarkably, Dr Evans has now changed his mind on the cause of death of three of the babies: Baby C, Baby I and Baby P (as well as air embolism). Dr Evans had said to the jury that Lucy Letby had injected air down a nasal gastric tube and this had led to the death of the three babies.
