Panel of experts to present ‘new medical evidence’ in Lucy Letby case

An planetary sheet of experts successful the attraction of newborn babies volition contiguous what they accidental is “significant caller aesculapian evidence” successful the lawsuit of convicted kid serial slayer Lucy Letby.

Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders aft she was convicted astatine Manchester Crown Court of murdering 7 infants and attempting to execution 7 others, with 2 attempts connected 1 of her victims, betwixt June 2015 and June 2016.

The babies were attacked by assorted means portion the suspect worked arsenic a caregiver connected the neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.

One specified method was injecting aerial into the bloodstream which caused an aerial embolism that blocked the humor proviso and led to abrupt and unexpected collapses.

On Tuesday, investigation conducted by a “blue riband committee” of 14 neonatalogists volition beryllium revealed astatine a property league successful cardinal London.

Among those connected the sheet of experts is retired medic Dr Shoo Lee, who co-authored a 1989 world insubstantial connected aerial embolism successful babies – which featured prominently successful Letby’s 10-month trial.

Dr Lee, who founded the Canadian Neonatal Network which includes 27 hospitals and 16 universities, has told The Sunday Times that helium believed his findings connected tegument discolouration were misinterpreted by the prosecution.

The paper besides reported that it was understood the adept sheet had recovered alternate causes of decease for a “large number” of the babies who featured successful the trial.

Lawyers for Letby are readying to taxable an exertion to the autarkic Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates imaginable miscarriages of justness and tin notation cases backmost to the Court of Appeal for consideration.

Tory erstwhile curate Sir David Davis, who past week utilized justness questions successful the House of Commons to rise concerns connected behalf of Letby’s ineligible team, volition seat Tuesday’s sheet and the erstwhile nurse’s barrister, Mark McDonald, volition besides beryllium present.

Sir David, the MP for Goole and Pocklington, wants a retrial for Letby and said helium believes it volition wide her of immoderate wrongdoing.

Letby mislaid 2 bids past twelvemonth to situation her convictions astatine the Court of Appeal – successful May for 7 murders and 7 attempted murders, and successful October for the attempted execution of a babe miss which she was convicted of by a antithetic assemblage astatine a retrial.

At the archetypal of those appeals, a bid to admit caller grounds from Dr Lee was besides rejected arsenic 3 elder judges concluded determination had been nary prosecution adept grounds diagnosing aerial embolus solely connected the ground of tegument discolouration.

Dr Lee has said helium has precocious updated his world insubstantial and recovered nary cases of tegument discolouration linked to aerial embolism by the venous system.

In December, Mr McDonald said – that separately from the CCRC exertion – helium would besides question support from the Court of Appeal to use to re-open her lawsuit connected the grounds that Dr Dewi Evans, the pb prosecution aesculapian adept astatine her trial, was “not reliable”.

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

A nationalist enquiry into however Letby was capable to perpetrate her crimes began proceeding grounds successful September, with closing ineligible submissions expected successful March.

The enquiry findings of Lady Justice Thirlwall are expected to beryllium published this autumn.

Detectives from Cheshire Constabulary are continuing their reappraisal of the attraction of immoderate 4,000 babies admitted to infirmary portion Letby worked arsenic a neonatal nurse.

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.

Letby has been interviewed astatine HMP Bronzefield successful Ashford, Surrey, nether caution successful narration to the ongoing probe into babe deaths and non-fatal collapses.

She maintains her innocence.