Lucy Letby’s legal team has said the lead prosecution expert has “now changed his mind” on the cause of death of three babies, meaning her conviction should be reviewed. Lucy Letby’s Barrister, Mark McDonald, said the defence would seek permission to “take the exceptional but necessary decision to apply to reopen the appeal of Lucy Letby and immediately review all her convictions”.
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00:00Today, the defence are announcing that they will be immediately seeking permission from the Court of Appeal
00:07to take the exceptional but necessary decision to apply to reopen the appeal of Lucy Letby
00:16and immediately review all her convictions.
00:19At the previous hearings, related to the admissibility before the jury
00:25of evidence from the lead prosecution expert, Dr. Darry Evans,
00:31the defence argued twice at the trial that Dr. Evans' evidence should be disregarded.
00:40This was refused by the trial judge.
00:43Dr. Evans has also said that he has revised his opinion in relation to Baby C
00:51and has written a new report that he has given to the police.