"Child serial killer Lucy Letby
loses Court of Appeal bid
to challenge her murder and
attempted murder conviction.
Three of the country's most senior judges
ruled the 34-year-old former neo-natal nurse
will not be allowed to challenge the guilty verdicts of the jury at Manchester Crown Court.
The decision marks the end of the road for Letby,
who is serving 14 whole life tariffs,
and will die in jail.
Mr Justice Goss sentenced Letby to 14 whole life tariffs for each guilty count,
meaning she has no prospect of parole.
Last month her lawyers applied for leave to appeal,
arguing that she wanted to challenge her convictions on four grounds.
Each involved arguments that Mr Justice Goss,
the trial judge,
wrongly refused legal applications made during the case.
But today Dame Victoria Sharp said Letby's application had been refused on all four grounds.
In a short hearing,
at London's Court of Appeal,
Dame Sharp said their judgement was being reserved to a later date.
'Lucy Letby…put forward four grounds of appeal,
each of which involved a position that the trial judge wrongly refused applications that she made during her trial,'
the judge said.
'This court has,
having heard that application,
directed to refuse leave to appeal on all grounds and refused all associated applications'.
The full reasons for the judges' decision were not made public
and the full details of the appeal hearings,
which took place over three days in April,
also cannot be reported for legal reasons.
Letby is due to face a retrial next month
on a single count that she attempted to murder a baby girl, known as Baby K, in February 2016."
In August 2023, Letby, of Hereford, was convicted of the murders and attempted murders of the babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
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