The families of Lucy Letby’s victims have accused the killer nurse and her legal team of ‘using her victimhood’ to ‘defect attention’ away from her crimes.
Representatives for the families have said the Free Letby campaign is based on flawed reasoning and an attempt for the nurse, who was found guilty of murdering seven babies, to ‘control the narrative’.
The killer nurse, who was found to have attempted to murder eight more babies, has presented new medical evidence to try an argue she had no involvement in the babies’ deaths in the Free Letby campaign.
But Richard Baker KC, representing the families of the victims, said there was ‘nothing remarkable or new’ in the evidence recently submitted.
He said the applications to stop the Thirwall Inquiry into the murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital was Letby trying to ‘control the narrative’.
Letby’s barrister Mark McDonald was also accused of making ‘hyperbolic, very serious, publicity-grabbing statements’ without so much as fact checking.
Mr Baker said: ‘It causes the families to feel, with some justification, that evidence is presented by Letby’s team in order to create drama and headlines and that the proper basis for it is not being analysed or tested.
‘It suggests to them that Letby’s team are more concerned with publicity stunts than putting forward a properly reasoned or legally sound appeal.
‘From Letby’s perspective she is keen to control the narrative and prevent the events that occurred between June 2015 and June 2016 being set out in a way that she cannot control.
‘It is… an attempt by Letby to use her own victimhood as a way of deflecting attention away from her actions.’
Mr Baker added the campaign is based on flawed reasoning and argued it is ‘fanciful’ to say the new evidence would have led the jury to reach a different verdict.
The mum of Baby D, who was killed by Letby in 2015, also criticised ‘the noise from ill- and misinformed people’.
But Mr McDonald has insisted the new evidence has ‘comprehensively destroyed’ the case against Letby.
He said: ‘We now have reports from 24 internationally renowned neonatal, surgical and pathology experts, from eight different countries, who are all the very best in the world.
‘They have comprehensively destroyed the prosecution case and have all agreed that Lucy Letby is innocent. The experts are clear that the jury was misled on key evidence, and that this has led to a wrongful conviction.’
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Letby, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.
Last month, a panel of the world’s top neonatal experts told reporters there is ‘no evidence’ Letby murdered any babies.
Dr Shoo Lee, leader of the 14-strong panel that carried out an in-depth analysis, said: ‘We did not find any murders. In all cases, death or injury were due to natural causes or just bad medical care.’
A spokesperson at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: ‘Due to the Thirlwall Inquiry and the ongoing police investigations, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.’
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