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The broad-brush, emotive telling of the questions around the neonatal nurse’s conviction uses arrest footage that her parents have said ‘would likely kill us’ if they watched. Did her mother’s howl of distress need to be broadcast?

Lucy Letby was handed 15 life sentences back in 2023, but some think she didn't do it.

When the former nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, a 1980s research paper was key to the prosecution’s case. But the author of the paper himself believes there has been a miscarriage of justice – and so too do other doctors

The previously undisclosed document could significantly bolster her legal team’s efforts to overturn her convictions

Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others.

Victim’s families have described a report from a panel of experts as ‘full of analytical holes’ and a ‘rehash’ of her defence case

Lucy Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials at Manchester Crown Court

Mark McDonald will visit the Birmingham offices of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Letby lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal