Evil child-killing nurse Lucy Letby has been denied the chance to appeal her convictions.
At a two-and-a-half day hearing last month, Letby’s lawyers asked senior judges for the go-ahead to bring an appeal against all her convictions. And at a hearing today, Dame Victoria Sharp, Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert announced that the appeal at been denied.
In August 2023, Letby, of Hereford, was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. The decision will now mark the end of the appeal process for Letby, although the full reasons for the judges’ decision has not yet been made public.
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The jury in Letby’s trial at Manchester Crown Court was unable to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder in relation to five children. She will face a retrial at the same court in June on a single count that she attempted to murder a baby girl, known as Child K, in February 2016.
A court order prohibits reporting of the identities of the surviving and dead children who were the subject of the allegations.
The former neonatal nurse, now 34, was given a rare whole-life term by a judge for the “sadistic” murder of seven babies and attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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Strangely, a petition posted to change.org claimed the evidence in the trial was “insufficient” and called for her to be fully retried. Ceri Morrice, creator of the petition, told The Mirror: “The evidence given in the trial was insufficient… A retrial should be ordered showing the original data, plus all the other deaths and collapses with full nursing and doctor rosters.”
Signatories to the petition say they believe Letby is innocent and was a scapegoat. The Government typically responds to petitions after 10,000 signatures.
A source close to victims’ families branded the campaign deeply insulting, saying: “A jury tirelessly deliberated for weeks and the guilty verdict was based on watertight evidence.”
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