Killer nurse Lucy Letby loses appeal to have her murder convictions overturned
Former nurse Lucy Letby is serving a whole life sentence for murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016
Child serial killer Lucy Letby has lost her bid to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.
The 34-year-old former nurse’s lawyers asked senior judges for the go-ahead to bring an appeal against all her convictions, at a two-and-a-half day hearing last month. Dame Victoria Sharp, Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert today handed down their decision. As the judges have declined to give the go-ahead for the challenge, this ruling marks the end of the appeal process for Letby.
Dame Victoria said: “Having heard her application, we have decided to refuse leave to appeal on all grounds and refuse all associated applications. A full judgment will be handed down in due course.”
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 full details of Letby’s appeal bid, which was argued on four points, cannot currently be reported for legal reasons.
She killed seven babies ( Image: Chester Standard / SWNS.com)
Dame Victoria previously said it could be reported that it was the submission of Letby’s legal team that the judge at her trial wrongly refused legal applications during that trial. The full reasons for the judges’ decision will be handed down at a later date.
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.
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