Lucy Letby has changed her authorized group, her new barrister informed the BBC final evening.
The previous neo-natal nurse is at present serving a complete life sentence, with no prospect of parole, after being convicted of the murders of seven infants and the tried homicide of seven others on the Countess of Chester Hospital, following two separate trials.
She has additionally made two purposes to attraction which have been refused. Her barrister all through the trials and appeals was Ben Myers KC.
However Mark McDonald, a specialist barrister in appeals and miscarriages of justice, informed the BBC’s File on 4 that he was now representing the serial killer.
He stated he plans to take her case to the Legal Instances Evaluate Fee (CCRC), to use for it to be despatched again to the Court docket of Attraction.
For that to occur, Mr McDonald might want to safe recent proof and persuade the CCRC that such proof undermines the protection of her convictions.
Lucy Letby has changed her authorized group, her new barrister informed the BBC final evening – she is pictured right here when she labored as a nurse on the neonatal unit on the Countess of Chester Hospital
The previous neo-natal nurse is at present serving a complete life sentence, with no prospect of parole, after being convicted of the murders of seven infants and the tried homicide of seven others on the Countess of Chester Hospital
‘I knew virtually from the beginning, following this trial, that there’s a robust case that she is harmless,’ he stated.
‘The actual fact is juries get it incorrect. And sure, so do the Court docket of Attraction, historical past teaches us that.’
Mr McDonald has beforehand been concerned in a number of high-profile appeals, together with that if Ben Geen, one other nurse jailed for all times in 2006 for murdering two of his sufferers and poisoning 15 others.
Geen’s software to attraction his convictions was denied by the Court docket of Attraction in 2009 and two additional purposes to the CCRC, in 2013 and 2015, additionally refused.
Mr McDonald has spoken at size about his fears Letby’s conviction is a miscarriage of justice on social media and in interviews printed on-line following her convictions in August final 12 months.
Physique worn digicam footage issued by Cheshire Constabulary exhibiting Letby’s arrest
The neo-natal ward on the Countess of Chester Hospital the place Letby labored
Final evening he posted on X: ‘The day after Lucy was convicted I raised considerations. I used to be attacked for talking out even reported to my skilled physique. There are numerous hurdles to beat in coming years however at some point justice can be achieved and people wrongly convicted can be freed.’
