British baby-killer Lucy Letby loses bid to appeal conviction
UK child serial killer Lucy Letby lost her bid on Thursday to appeal against her conviction for the attempted murder of a newborn girl.
The former neonatal nurse’s lawyers asked the Court of Appeal in London for approval to challenge her latest conviction, secured at a retrial in July, for attempting to kill the baby known as Child K.
Her legal team argued that the retrial should not have gone ahead due to the “overwhelming and irremediable prejudice” generated by coverage of her first trial.
But three senior judges dismissed the claim.
“We conclude that the judge was right to find that Letby would be able to have a fair trial,” they said.
The jury found Letby, 34, guilty of attempting to murder the baby girl at the neonatal unit where she worked nearly a decade ago, with the judge handing her a life sentence in prison.
This came nearly a year after a different jury found her guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England, between 2015 and 2016.
That conviction made her Britain’s most prolific child serial killer in modern history.
She received 14 whole-life orders for those crimes and was earlier this year refused permission to challenge the convictions.
AFP
