Lucy Letby planning fresh appeal says new lawyer
manchestereveningnews.co.ukChild serial killer Lucy Letby is planning to launch a fresh appeal with a new legal team, her barrister has said, according to the BBC.
The former neonatal nurse is one of the UK's most notorious child serial killers after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven others in two separate trials.
All the murders took place at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She was handed multiple whole life orders following her convictions, and has unsuccessfully appealed them twice.
But she has now employed a new legal team and is reportedly planning a fresh appeal. READ MORE: The paedophile Greater Manchester Police officer caught by his colleagues Her new barrister Mark McDonald has told the BBC’s File on 4 that he plans to take her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), to apply for it to be sent back to the Court of Appeal. “I knew almost from the start, following this trial, that there is a strong case that she is innocent,” he said. “The fact is juries get it wrong.
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