9 Feb 2025

Another chance for Lucy Letby?

From Sunday Morning, 8:13 am on 9 February 2025

The case of British nurse Lucy Letby, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing seven newborn babies, is being reviewed as medical experts argued this week that there was no evidence to support her conviction for murder. 

London defence lawyer Tim Owen KC co-hosts a legal podcast Double Jeopardy, which examines the case. He joins us to explain the next legal steps. 

A handout image released by Cheshire Constabulary police force in Manchester on August 17, 2023, shows the November 2020 custody photograph of nurse Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby was on August 18, 2023, found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK's most prolific killer of children. Letby, 33 -- on trial since October 2022 -- was accused of injecting her young victims, who were either sick or born prematurely, with air, overfeeding them milk and poisoning them with insulin. (Photo by Cheshire Constabulary / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT  " AFP PHOTO / Cheshire Constabulary/ Handout "  -  NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS   -   DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Photo: AFP / Cheshire Constabulary