Lucy Letby’s legal team to announce ‘new medical evidence’ next week

Child serial slayer Lucy Letby’s ineligible squad volition denote what is claimed to beryllium “new aesculapian evidence” from a sheet of planetary experts, adjacent week.

The panel, to beryllium chaired by Conservative MP Sir David Davis, volition see retired neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, who is expected to disclose caller investigation astatine a cardinal London property league connected Tuesday.

The grounds is said to beryllium the unanimous findings of autarkic investigation by 14 neonatal experts.

Dr Lee was the apical paediatrician astatine Mount Sinai Hospital successful Canada for much than a decade, and founded the Canadian Neonatal Network, which includes 27 hospitals and 16 universities.

Tory erstwhile curate Sir David, who earlier this week utilized justness questions successful the House of Commons to rise concerns connected behalf of Letby’s ineligible squad who are seeking to reopen her case, volition seat the sheet and the erstwhile nurse’s barrister, Mark McDonald, volition besides beryllium present.

Letby, from Hereford, was convicted of the murders of 7 babies and the attempted murders of 7 others, with 2 attempts connected 1 child, erstwhile she worked connected the neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital betwixt June 2015 and June 2016.

After 2 trials, she is serving 15 whole-life orders, making her lone the 4th pistillate successful UK past to beryllium told she volition ne'er beryllium released from prison.

Her ineligible squad past period said it would marque a caller bid to situation her convictions connected the grounds that the pb prosecution aesculapian adept astatine her proceedings was “not reliable”.

Mr McDonald said helium would question support from the Court of Appeal to instrumentality the “exceptional but indispensable decision” to use to reopen her case.

Retired advisor paediatrician Dr Dewi Evans said concerns regarding his grounds were “unsubstantiated, unfounded, inaccurate”.

Sir David, the MP for Goole and Pocklington, wants a retrial for Letby and said helium believes it volition “clear” the erstwhile nurse.

A nationalist enquiry examining events astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital pursuing Letby’s aggregate convictions was launched, and findings by chairwoman Lady Justice Thirlwall are expected this autumn.