Lucy Letby
British nurse convicted of murder
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| March 2025 | Thirlwall rejected requests to pause the inquiry during Letby's Criminal Cases Review Commission appeal. |
| 2025 | Jeremy Hunt, former Health Secretary, apologized to victims' families for taking 'too long' to act during the inquiry hearing. |
| February 2025 | Letby's legal team applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to review her case following Dr Lee's panel investigation. |
| February 2025 | A panel of 14 international medical experts, led by neonatologist Shoo Lee, conducted an independent investigation into the infant deaths associated with Lucy Letby's case. The panel concluded that all incidents could be explained by natural causes or substandard medical care, finding no evidence of deliberate harm. |
| 2025 | Dr. Shoo Lee published an updated literature review on air embolism, examining 117 medical cases with a mean gestational age of 30.4 weeks and mean birth weight of 1,422g, which provided additional context to the medical evidence in the Letby case. |
| February 4 2025 | Letby's legal team submitted an application for case review, supported by a panel of 14 international medical experts chaired by Dr. Shoo Lee, challenging the original murder convictions and suggesting the babies' deaths were due to natural causes and systemic medical care issues. |
| February 4 2025 | Letby's legal team submitted an application for case review, supported by a panel of 14 international medical experts chaired by Dr. Shoo Lee, challenging the medical evidence of her deliberate harm to babies. |
| February 3 2025 | Letby's legal team applies to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to review the case for potential miscarriage of justice. |
| February 3 2025 | Dr Shoo Lee held a press conference with Letby's barrister Mark McDonald, MP David Davis, and neonatologist Neena Modi, stating that the panel of 14 medical experts found no evidence of murders and called for Letby's release from prison. |
| February 3 2025 | Dr Shoo Lee held a press conference with Letby's legal team, publicly challenging the medical evidence used in her conviction and calling for her immediate release, stating that the deaths were due to natural causes or medical care failures. |
| January 2025 | Sir David Davis MP leads a debate in the House of Commons discussing potential miscarriage of justice in Letby's trial. |
| 2024 | Defence applied to use Dr. Shoo Lee as a witness for an appeal, but the Court of Appeal ruled his testimony was not admissible since he could have been called during the original trial. |
| 2024 | Letby made an unsuccessful application for leave to appeal her conviction. |
| December 2024 | At a press conference in December 2024, Mark McDonald announced that he was preparing new applications to both the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Cases Review Commission on behalf of Lucy Letby. |
| December 2024 | Mark McDonald held a press conference announcing preparations for new legal applications, criticizing expert witness Dewi Evans and highlighting preliminary expert reports suggesting no deliberate harm to infants. |
| November 2024 | John Sweeney interviewed Dewi Evans, who acknowledged the presence of pseudomonas in the neonatal unit's water supplies, which had led to several cases of pneumonia. |
| November 2024 | Dewi Evans gave an interview to John Sweeney, acknowledging the presence of pseudomonas in the neonatal unit's water supplies, which had led to several pneumonia cases. |
| October 24 2024 | Lucy Letby applied for leave to appeal against her conviction, arguing that prejudicial media coverage should have prevented the trial from proceeding. |
| September 2024 | In September 2024, The Guardian reported that handwritten notes found at Lucy Letby's home were written on the advice of counsellors as part of a therapeutic process, suggesting they did not serve as a confession or admission of guilt. |
| September 2024 | In September 2024, Lucy Letby appointed a new defence lawyer, Mark McDonald. |
| September 2024 | An independent statutory inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths begins its hearings. |
| September 2024 | The Royal Statistical Society held a meeting to discuss concerns about the statistical evidence used in Lucy Letby's prosecution, critically examining the case and drawing comparisons with previous miscarriages of justice involving nurses who were convicted of patient killings. |
| September 2024 | British government-commissioned independent statutory inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the infant deaths began its hearings. |
| September 2024 | The Guardian reported that Letby's handwritten notes were written on the advice of counsellors as part of a therapeutic process, challenging their interpretation as a confession during her trial. |
| September 2024 | Lucy Letby appointed Mark McDonald as her new defence lawyer to challenge her convictions. |
| September 2024 | The Royal Statistical Society held a meeting to discuss concerns about the statistical evidence used in Lucy Letby's prosecution, critically examining the data and drawing comparisons with previous miscarriages of justice involving nurses. |
| September 2024 | British government commissions an independent statutory inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the infant deaths at Countess of Chester Hospital. |
| September 10 2024 | The public inquiry officially began. |
| September 10 2024 | The public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Lucy Letby's actions officially began. |
| September 10 2024 | The public inquiry officially began, with testimony revealing colleagues' accounts of Letby's behavior, including her attitude towards infant deaths. |
| August 2024 | A report was leaked to The Telegraph indicating that the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked had experienced an outbreak of a dangerous bacteria during the time of the alleged murders, a detail that was not presented during her trial. |
| August 2024 | In August 2024, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that during Lucy Letby's first trial, door swipe data used to establish her presence at the incidents was mislabelled, leading to reversed entries and exits. |
| August 2024 | A group of 24 neonatal and statistical experts wrote a letter to ministers requesting postponement and changes to the inquiry, which was rejected. |
| August 2024 | A group of 24 neonatal and statistical experts wrote a letter to ministers requesting postponement and modification of the inquiry's terms, citing concerns about the safety of Letby's convictions. |
| July 2024 | Retrial of an attempted murder charge on which the previous jury failed to reach a verdict; Letby pleaded not guilty but was convicted. |
| July 2024 | Conclusion of Lucy Letby's second trial, with reporting restrictions subsequently lifted, allowing public discussion of concerns about her convictions. |
| July 5 2024 | Lucy Letby was sentenced to another whole-life order following her conviction for attempted murder. |
| July 2 2024 | Lucy Letby was found guilty of attempted murder during her retrial. |
| June 10 2024 | The retrial of Lucy Letby commenced. |
| May 2024 | The New Yorker published an article questioning Lucy Letby's conviction, highlighting significant staffing shortages and infrastructure issues within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. |
| May 2024 | The Court of Appeal judges refused permission to appeal Letby's convictions, concluding that the trial was 'thoughtful, fair, comprehensive and correct.' |
| May 2024 | Three judges of the Court of Appeal (Dame Victoria Sharp, Lord Justice Holroyde, and Mrs Justice Lambert) refused Letby permission to appeal her convictions. |
| May 29 2024 | The Chair of the inquiry ruled that remote live viewing would be available to Core Participants, their legal representatives, and the media, but that livestreaming to the general public would not be permitted. |
| May 29 2024 | Inquiry Chair ruled that remote live viewing would be available to Core Participants and legal representatives, but not livestreamed publicly. |
| April 2024 | Letby's lawyers presented four grounds of appeal during a three-day hearing concerning the trial judge's refusal of applications. |
| April 2024 | Letby had a three-day hearing in the Court of Appeal where her lawyers presented four grounds of appeal, challenging various aspects of her original trial. |
| January 2024 | Lucy Letby applied to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal her convictions, which was refused by a judge. |
| January 2024 | Lucy Letby applied to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal her convictions, which was initially refused by a judge. |
| 2023 | Lucy Letby stood trial for alleged harm to infants, with her defence arguing she was 'a dedicated nurse in a system which has failed' and challenging the prosecution's case of deliberate harm. |
| December 12 2023 | Lucy Letby was removed from the nursing register after informing the Nursing and Midwifery Council that she did not accept guilt but did not contest the removal. |
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