LUCY Letby was today refused permission to appeal against her latest conviction for trying to murder a premature baby girl.
The evil nurse is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven babies in a year-long reign of terror.
PALucy Letby has lost her latest appeal bid[/caption]
Letby, 34, also tried to kill seven others – including one baby twice – at Countess of Chester Hospital.
She today tried to get approval to challenge her most recent conviction in July.
Letby was found guilty of trying to murder a baby girl known as Child K following a retrial.
But three senior judges at the Court of Appeal today refused to grant her permission to appeal.
It is the latest bid brought by Letby to be dismissed after she lost a separate appeal in May against her first set of convictions.
At the retrial in July, she was convicted of trying to kill a seventh child – a premature baby girl so small she could fit in the palm of the nurse’s hand.
Her lawyer Benjamin Myers KC today argued the retrial should not have gone ahead due to “overwhelming and irremediable prejudice” caused by media coverage of her first trial.
He added: “The learned judge was wrong to reject the application made by the defence at the outset of the trial to stay the indictment as an abuse of process.”
Letby declared “I’m innocent” as she was handed another life order in July after the retrial.
Jurors heard how she tried to kill Baby K by dislodging her breathing tube less than two hours after she was born.
Letby became only the fourth woman ever to be handed whole life tariff after Rose West, Joanna Dennehy and Myra Hindley when she was sentenced.
She was originally convicted of seven counts of murder in August last year following a nine-month trial and 22 days of jury deliberation.
A court order prohibits reporting of the identities of the surviving and dead children involved in the case.
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