The Lynching of Lucy Letby

  Exclusive: Lucy Letby barrister banned from Thirlwall Inquiry Fears multiple baby killer nurse is being blamed in cases for which she was not convicted 1 Lady Justice Thirlwall is chairing the Letby inquiry  Credit : PETER BYRNE/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK Sarah Knapton Science Editor 29 October 2024 4:17pm GMT Lucy Letby ’s barrister has been banned from attending the  Thirlwall Inquiry , despite concerns that erroneous statements about the nurse are going unchallenged. Mark McDonald , who will be asking the Criminal Cases Review Commission ( CCRC ) to review Letby’s trial, applied last month for core participant status but was refused on the grounds that his presence would be disruptive. Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the  Countess of Chester Hospital , but the jury was unable to reach a verdict in respect of several other infants. Despite this, the barristers for these families have continued to blame Letby for ha...

  Is Lucy Letby a psychopath – and would she have killed if not? As Letby loses a bid to appeal her latest conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl, a new book has been released that explores how a nurse could go from an ordinary young woman to the most prolific child killer of the modern era. Here authors  Jonathan Coffey  and  Judith Moritz  reveal what they discovered about her state of mind... 3 hours ago 5 Since Letby was arrested in 2018, there has been intense speculation about the state of her mind  (PA) L ucy Letby is Britain’s  most prolific child killer  of the modern era. Surely someone fitting that bill must be a psychopath. After all, what other name would you give to someone  who has murdered  seven babies? During the research for our book, we spoke to a consultant forensic psychiatrist who has assessed and treated mentally disordered offenders in the North of England, including several who have been convicted of...