Lucy Letby update as her lawyers claim more than 50 experts are ready to defend her

Detectives from Cheshire Police said they had visited Letby, 34, successful situation to question her nether caution implicit a fig of different unexpected deaths and collapses of babies

Killer caregiver Lucy Letby has again insisted she is innocent, conscionable hours aft constabulary revealed they had quizzed her implicit much suspicious deaths of babies.

Detectives from Cheshire Police said they had visited Letby, 34, successful situation to question her nether caution implicit a fig of different unexpected deaths and collapses of babies. They subordinate to further cases astatine her aged workplace, the Countess of Chester Hospital and, for the archetypal time, astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital, wherever she was a trainee.

And to beryllium her innocence, Mr McDonald said much than 50 experts basal acceptable to support Letby.
He added: “Right now, we are focusing connected showing that her archetypal condemnation is unsafe and we person made precise important advancement successful doing so, which makes maine question the timing of this by the police.

“Last Saturday, I had a gathering with implicit 50 experts from crossed the world successful neonatology, statistics, anaesthetics and pathology, truthful immoderate caller proceedings – which I americium sceptical determination volition beryllium – we volition person a enactment of adept witnesses. They are besides acceptable to question the reliability of the grounds that was presented astatine the archetypal trial.”

She is already serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering 7 babies and trying to termination 7 others, during a year-long sidesplitting spree portion moving arsenic a neo-natal caregiver betwixt June 2015-2016. Mark McDonald, the lawyer representing Letby told the PA quality agency: "The constabulary person been briefing astir further inquiries for implicit a year.

"Any allegations request to beryllium taken earnestly truthful we are lone amazed by the timing of this caller leak from the police, fixed that determination is present important accusation that undermines Lucy Letby's convictions. Lucy voluntarily attended an interview; she was not arrested. Lucy continues to support her innocence and, arsenic she has said throughout, she has ne'er and would ne'er harm immoderate child.

"The continuing leaking and briefing of accusation successful this lawsuit by the constabulary since the probe began successful 2017 is profoundly concerning and needs to stop. Everybody is entitled to a just proceeding and close present the constabulary are arguably preventing this from taking place."

Earlier, Cheshire Police said successful a statement: "We tin corroborate that, pursuing agreement, Lucy Letby has precocious been interviewed successful situation nether caution successful narration to the ongoing probe into babe deaths and non-fatal collapses astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women's Hospital. Further updates volition follow."

Since quality of Letby's crimes broke, detectives person been combing done aesculapian notes of immoderate 4,000 babies admitted to infirmary wherever Letby was connected shift. The play covers her clip astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the extremity of June 2016, and includes 2 enactment placements astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital successful 2012 and 2015.

Cheshire Police antecedently said lone those cases highlighted arsenic medically concerning would beryllium investigated further. Letby, from Hereford, is presently successful HMP Bronzefield successful Ashford, Surrey, which caters for class A women prisoners.

Dr Stephen Brearey, elder paediatrician astatine the Countess of Chester neo-natal unit, told the Thirlwall Inquiry past period that helium believes she is "likely" to person murdered oregon attacked much babies earlier she killed her archetypal victim, a premature duplicate lad known arsenic Baby A, successful June 2015. The Inquiry is examining however Letby was capable to spell undetected for truthful long.

Dr Brearey told the hearing: "On reflection I deliberation it's apt that Letby didn't commencement becoming a slayer successful June 2015, oregon didn't commencement harming babies successful June 2015. I deliberation it's apt that her actions anterior to past implicit a play of clip changed what we perceived to beryllium abnormal."

Dr Brearey said the reporting civilization connected the portion was bully and unit were precise alert to study things they thought had gone wrong.
But "in retrospect" helium believed immoderate of the incidents betwixt June 2015 and June 2016, and "probably before", were deteriorations of babies that could person triggered further investigation.

The enquiry has heard that babies' breathing tubes became dislodged connected 40% of shifts that Letby worked astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital betwixt October and December 2012, and January and February 2015.