Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies in 2023 (Picture: PA)
An international panel of experts will today present ‘significant new medical evidence’ which they believe will exonerate child serial killer Lucy Letby.
The 35-year-old former nurse is currently serving 15 whole-life orders for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven others in her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Her legal team said they will disclose independent analysis by an international panel of 14 experts in neonatal care.
The panel is chaired by senior Tory MP Sir David Davis, who claims the findings will ‘clear’ Letby.
Davis has repeatedly called for a retrial for Letby, claiming he believed the ‘tabloid narrataive’ about her conviction until he was contacted by medics and academics.
The babies were attacked by various means while the defendant worked as a nurse on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
One such method was injecting air into the bloodstream which caused an air embolism that blocked the blood supply and led to sudden and unexpected collapses.
Letby’s barrister, Mark McDonald, has said new evidence ‘undermines’ the convictions
Among the experts on the panel today is retired neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, who co-authored a 1989 academic paper on air embolism in babies which featured prominently in Letby’s 10-month trial.
Dr Lee, who founded the Canadian Neonatal Network of 27 hospitals and 16 universities, told The Sunday Times he believes the findings presented in his paper were misinterpreted by prosecutors during Letby’s trial.
It was also reported that the expert panel had found alternative causes of death for a ‘large number’ of the babies who featured in the trial.
Letby lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal, and has exhausted further attempts unless significant new evidence is presented which was not available during her first trial.
New evidence will be presented today in an attempt to reopen her trial (Picture: SWNS)
Her lawyers will make an ‘exceptional but necessary decision’ to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the Dr Lee’s testimony will prove that the evidence presemted at her trial is ‘not reliable’.
Retired consultant paediatrician Dr Evans said concerns regarding his evidence were ‘unsubstantiated, unfounded, inaccurate’.
A number of academics and experts with no connection to the trial have weighed in on either side, although none have seen all the evidence.
Findings from a public inquiry into events at the hospital are expected this autumn.
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