Lucy Letby: Everything you need to know as baby killer applies to review case AGAIN

Lucy Letby's ineligible squad person contiguous held a property league claiming 'medical evidence' utilized successful her proceedings was incorrect and nary murders took spot astatine the Countess Chester hospital

Lucy Letby's ineligible squad contiguous made chaotic claims that nary babies were murdered successful her care.

Led by her barrister Mark McDonald KC and MP David Davis, who branded the lawsuit 'one of large injustices of modern times', they produced 'medical evidence' from 14 neonatal aesculapian experts which they accidental debunks the aesculapian grounds presented astatine proceedings by the crown's witness.

Retired medic Dr Shoo Lee, who co-authored a 1989 world insubstantial connected aerial embolism successful babies, presented the findings of a sheet who said they had compiled an “impartial evidence-based report”. He went connected to springiness 7 examples of however the attraction of each babe had, helium claimed, wrongly been blamed connected Letby, erstwhile determination was "clear evidence" thing other "really happened".

Moments earlier the property conference, it was announced Letby’s lawsuit volition beryllium reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates imaginable miscarriages of justice, aft her lawyers made an exertion to the assemblage connected Monday. Here we instrumentality a look astatine the lawsuit against the erstwhile caregiver and what led to her conviction.

What was Lucy Letby convicted of?

The assemblage spent 22 days and much than 96 hours deliberating the drawstring of charges levelled against the nurse.

In August 2023, they recovered her blameworthy of 7 counts of execution and 7 counts of attempted murder. She was recovered not blameworthy of 2 counts of attempted murder. Verdicts were not reached connected six counts of attempted murder.

She was retried connected 1 number of attempted execution successful July 2024 and recovered guilty. Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life situation orders meaning she volition walk the remainder of her beingness successful prison. In May 2024, she was refused permission to entreaty by 3 precocious tribunal judges. Dame Victoria Sharp, Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert declined to springiness the go-ahead for the challenge.

Dame Victoria said: “Having heard her application, we person decided to garbage permission to entreaty connected each grounds and garbage each associated applications. A afloat judgement volition beryllium handed down successful owed course.”

What was the grounds against Lucy Letby?

Lucy Letby worked connected the neonatal ward astatine the Countess of Chester infirmary betwixt 2015 and 2016. The prosecution presented grounds that the caregiver utilized assorted methods to onslaught babies, including: the injection of aerial and insulin into their bloodstream; the infusion of aerial into their gastrointestinal tract; unit feeding an overdose of beverage oregon fluids; impact-type trauma.

They said her volition was to termination the babies portion deceiving her colleagues into believing determination was a earthy cause. Pascale Jones of the CPS said aft her conviction: “Lucy Letby sought to deceive her colleagues and walk disconnected the harm she caused arsenic thing much than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability.

“In her hands, innocuous substances similar air, milk, fluids - oregon medicine similar insulin - would go lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponised her trade to inflict harm, grief and death. Time and again, she harmed babies, successful an situation which should person been harmless for them and their families. Her attacks were a implicit betrayal of the spot placed successful her."

The prosecution claimed she killed the children to get the attraction of a antheral doctor. The doctor, who cannot beryllium identified, was described by prosecutors arsenic her “boyfriend”. But Letby insisted: “I loved him arsenic a friend. I was not successful emotion with him.” The assemblage heard she exchanged messages with him astatine enactment and astatine location and her nursing colleagues teased her astir flirting with him.

The tribunal was told she kept "souvenirs" included resuscitation notes, nursing handover sheets, and a humor trial effect relating to the babies who died. A photograph of a condolence paper which she sent to the parents of 1 of the babies who died successful October 2015 was recovered connected her phone.

The prosecution claimed Letby regularly searched for the families of victims. She looked up the parent of 1 babe 9 times and adjacent searched for their names connected Christmas Day. Letby admitted the searches, which totalled up to 2,380 successful a azygous 12-month period, saying it was “out of curiosity”.

What was Lucy Letby's defence?

Letby denied each the allegations and gave grounds successful the witnesser container for 14 days during the trial. She denied doing thing harmful to immoderate kid and that the abrupt collapses and deaths could person been owed to earthy causes, oregon for immoderate unascertained reason, oregon from nonaccomplishment by others to supply due care.

Her defence claimed she was a “hard-working, dedicated and caring” caregiver who loved her job. During the proceedings Letby, who is simply a qualified Band 5 nurse, recalled the infinitesimal she received a missive from the Royal College of Nursing to pass her she was being held liable for the deaths of babies connected the neonatal portion astatine Countess of Chester Hospital.

She told the court: "I don't deliberation you tin beryllium accused of thing worse than that. I conscionable changed arsenic a person, my intelligence wellness deteriorated, I felt isolated...from my friends connected the unit. From a self-confidence constituent of view, it made maine question everything astir myself."

Letby received the connection successful September 2016 and was arrested little than 2 years aboriginal astatine her Chester home. The suspect said: "They told maine I was being arrested for aggregate counts of murder, they enactment maine into handcuffs and took maine away."