Lucy Letby barrister claims fresh evidence will completely demolish case against child serial killer

The barrister representing Lucy Letby has handed over “fresh” medical evidence that he claims will “completely demolish” the case against her.

Mark McDonald told reporters the convicted child serial killer has “a new hope” as he visited the Birmingham offices of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).

He was there to deliver the full findings of a 14-strong international panel of neonatologists and paediatric specialists who say poor medical care and natural causes were the reasons for babies collapsing at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit.

Also passed to the CCRC, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, was a separate report from seven medics which claims the results of insulin tests on two infants, which a jury concluded Letby poisoned, were unreliable.

Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.