Baby-killing nurse Lucy Letby's lawyers share 'new evidence' - live updates
Defenders of convicted baby serial killer Lucy Letby, 35, claim she needs a retrial - a panel chaired by Tory MP David Davis say they will reveal 'new evidence' this morning
Doctor claimed evidence used 'wasn't quite right'
Dr Lee previously said the evidence used to convict Letby “wasn’t quite right”.
An academic paper he co-authored over three decades ago was used in evidence to help convict Letby.
But when the emeritus professor at the University of Toronto in Canada reviewed court transcripts relating to evidence given about the paper he was left unhappy.
He told the Sunday Times: “I looked at [the court transcripts] and I wasn’t very happy, because what they were interpreting wasn’t exactly what I said.”
Letby, from Hereford, was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of seven others – with two attempts on one child – when she worked on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
After two trials, she is serving 15 whole-life orders – making her just the fourth woman in UK history to be told she will never be released from jail.
In August 2023 after being found guilty at her first trial, the CPS said: “The prosecution was able to present evidence of Letby using various methods to attack babies, including: the injection of air and insulin into their bloodstream; the infusion of air into their gastrointestinal tract; force feeding an overdose of milk or fluids; impact-type trauma.”
Her legal team has said it would make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was "not reliable".
Mr McDonald has said he would seek permission from the Court of Appeal to take the "exceptional but necessary decision" to apply to reopen her case.