Former nurse is serving 15 whole-life terms in prison yet an appeal is not guaranteed despite findings of expert panel
Unless and until the CCRC decides that the latest evidence is enough to persuade the court of appeal to rethink, Letby will remain in prison.Unless and until the CCRC decides that the latest evidence is enough to persuade the court of appeal to rethink, Letby will remain in prison.concluding there was “no medical evidence” that Lucy Letby murdered babies, there is no guarantee that her case will be sent back to the court of appeal – let alone quickly.
Unless and until the CCRC decides that the latest evidence is enough to persuade the court of appeal to rethink, she will remain in prison.It depends who you ask. A source at the CCRC said it was “fanciful” that Letby’s case would be referred back to the appeal court even within a year, but her representatives say they see no reason why it could not be imminent.
“You’ve got to do a full and detailed review and unfortunately they take a long time. That’s the nature of complexity of this type of case.” A CCRC spokesperson was careful not to put a timeline on it: “At this stage it is not possible to determine how long it will take to review this application. A significant volume of complicated evidence was presented to the court in Ms Letby’s trials.”Letby’s convictions for murdering and harming babies by injecting air into their bloodstreams and poisoning them with insulin rested largely on evidence presented by one retired consultant paediatrician.
A source at the CCRC said that despite the “huge groundswell of public opinion” on the case, that did not mean it would persuade appeal court judges. They said: “The court of appeal don’t like expert shopping, as they call it. They just say, you can keep going around until you find the right expert that will agree with you, but that’s not what it’s about.”
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