Convicted killer Lucy Letby’s bid to appeal against her latest conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
Letby’s lawyers asked three senior judges for approval to appeal against her most recent conviction, which followed a retrial in July, for attempting to kill a newborn known as Child K.
Letby, 34, had already been found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
Her lawyers had argued her re-trial was unfair because the jury were prejudiced by the media coverage from the original trial – which ended in August 2023.
Letby has already had an appeal against her other 14 convictions thrown out by the Court of Appeal.
A public inquiry into how she was able to commit her crimes is ongoing at Liverpool Town Hall.
At the Court of Appeal earlier, Benjamin Myers KC, representing Letby, had told the court her original trial in 2023 covered an “exceptional case with exceptional media interest”, which could lead to “exceptional unfairness”.
“We are dealing with the impact of media coverage and public comment arising from the first trial, upon the second,” he added.
