Senior Tory calls for retrial for child serial killer Lucy Letby
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Conservative former minister Sir David Davis has called for a retrial for child serial killer Lucy Letby and said he believes it will “clear” the former nurse. The senior Tory said there was no “hard evidence” implicating Letby and the case against her was “built on a poor understanding of probabilities”.
He told MPs: “If, as I believe it will, a retrial clears Lucy Letby she shall be released in her 30s, not in her 50s.”. Letby, 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.
Lawyers for Letby last month said they would make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was “not reliable”. During an adjournment debate in the Commons, Sir David told MPs: “There is case in justice, in my view, for a retrial. But there is a problem. One of the problems we face is that much of the evidence was available at the time.
“What I have described is an expert analysis of the case notes, which were there at the time, but it was simply not presented to the jury. “This means the Court of Appeal can dismiss it, basically saying the defence should have presented it at the initial trial.
