Attorneys for convicted little one serial killer Lucy Letby have utilized to the Prison Instances Overview Fee (CCRC) to research her case as a possible miscarriage of justice, the organisation stated.
Letby, now 35, is serving 15 entire life jail sentences after being convicted of murdering seven infants and trying to homicide seven others – together with one she attacked twice.
All of the offences occurred between June 2015 and June 2016 whereas the nurse was working on the neonatal unit on the Countess of Chester Hospital.
The CCRC confirmed it had “acquired a preliminary software in relation to Ms Letby’s case, and work has begun to evaluate the applying”.
Its announcement got here minutes earlier than a press convention organised by her authorized crew, the place they declare a panel of specialists on the care of new child infants will current what they are saying is “vital new medical proof”.
A CCRC spokesperson stated: “We’re conscious that there was an excessive amount of hypothesis and commentary surrounding Lucy Letby’s case, a lot of it from events with solely a partial view of the proof.
“We ask that everybody remembers the households affected by occasions on the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.”
The spokesperson stated it was not the CCRC’s job to “decide innocence or guilt in a case”, and stated that it was a “matter for the courts”.
The physique stated it might now assess the applying and decide whether or not there was new proof which introduced an affordable probability of a conviction being overturned.