Senior Tory MP calls for Lucy Letby retrial
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A senior Conservative has called for a retrial for Lucy Letby, the nurse jailed for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others. Former minister Sir David Davis has said he believes a retrial will "clear" her, as her conviction was "built on a poor understanding of probabilities" and lacked "hard evidence".
He told MPs on Wednesday "there is case in justice" for a retrial, but admitted there was a problem. Much of the expert analysis of the case notes he was referring to, was available at the time but not presented to the jury, he said. That meant the Court of Appeal can dismiss it, "basically saying the defence should have presented it at the initial trial".
In effect, he said, the court can say: "'If your defence team weren't good enough to present this evidence, hard luck you stay banged up for life'.". Such an outcome "may be judicially convenient, but it's not justice," he said. He said earlier: "There was no hard evidence against Letby, nobody saw her do anything untoward. The doctor's gut feeling was based on a coincidence - she was on shift for a number of deaths, and this is important, although far from all of them, far from all of them.
"It was built on a poor understanding of probabilities, which could translate later into an influential but spectacularly flawed piece of evidence.". Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News. Sir David said Letby's case "horrified the nation" and that it "seemed clear a nurse had turned into a serial killer".
