Court dismisses application by nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more
Lucy Letby has been refused permission to appeal against a conviction for attempting to murder a baby girl at the hospital where she worked.
Letby, now 34, gave no reaction to the judges’ ruling, listening impassively via videolink from the UK’s only all-women prison, HMP Bronzefield in Surrey.of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England. He said police detectives had described the nurse as “evil, cruel and devoid of emotion” while a senior prosecutor had labelled her “devious, cold-blooded, calculated manipulative” following her first trial last year.
Myers said it had been “unprecedented” for a police force,in this case Cheshire constabulary, to launch into “blistering attacks” on a defendant at a time when a retrial was under consideration. He told the judges that most of the disapproving public comment had been directed towards hospital management for allowing Letby to remain on the neonatal unit despite concerns raised by senior doctors.
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