{"id":21515,"date":"2025-02-04T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:54","slug":"lucy-letbys-lawyers-apply-for-case-to-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21515","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Letby&#8217;s lawyers apply for case to be reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Lawyers for convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby have applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to investigate her case as a potential miscarriage of justice, the organisation said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Letby, now 35, is serving 15 whole life prison sentences after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others &#8211; including one she attacked twice. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">All the offences took place between June 2015 and June 2016 while the nurse was working at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The CCRC announcement came minutes before a press conference organised Letby&#8217;s legal team, where they claim a panel of experts on the care of newborn babies will present what they say is &#8220;significant new medical evidence&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Opening the press conference, MP Sir David Davis, who has been assisting Letby&#8217;s legal team, described her convictions as &#8220;one of the major injustices of modern times&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The CCRC confirmed it had &#8220;received a preliminary application in relation to Ms Letby&#8217;s case, and work has begun to assess the application&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A CCRC spokesperson said: &#8220;We are aware that there has been a great deal of speculation and commentary surrounding Lucy Letby&#8217;s case, much of it from parties with only a partial view of the evidence.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;We ask that everyone remembers the families affected by events at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The spokesperson said it was not the CCRC&#8217;s job to &#8220;determine innocence or guilt in a case&#8221;, and said that it was a &#8220;matter for the courts&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The body said it would now assess the application and determine whether there was new evidence which presented a reasonable chance of a conviction being overturned.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby have applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to investigate her case as a potential miscarriage of justice, the organisation said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21517,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21518,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions\/21518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}