Lucy Letby’s legal team seeks conviction challenge after ‘key witness changed mind’
Lucy Letby’s lawyers have announced a fresh bid to challenge the child serial killer’s convictions after a key witness ‘changed his mind on the cause of death of three babies’.
Speaking at a press conference, Letby’s barrister Mark McDonald said he would immediately seek permission from the Court of Appeal to reopen the case after expert witness Dr Dewi Evans ‘remarkably’ changed his mind.
He said: ‘The defence will argue that Dr Evans is not a reliable expert, and all the convictions are not safe.’
Letby, 34, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was found guilty of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others while working as a neo-natal nurse between June 2015 and June 2016.
She has already lost two bids to challenge her convictions this year at the Court of Appeal– one in May for the seven murders and attempted murders, and another in October for the attempted murder of a baby girl, which saw her found guilty by a different jury at a retrial.
The Thirlwall Inquiry into how Letby was able to commit her crimes has heard evidence at Liverpool Town Hall since September and will resume in January, with findings expected to be published in autumn 2025.
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