Letby's lawyers apply for case to be reviewed

Lawyers for convicted kid serial slayer Lucy Letby person applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to analyse her lawsuit arsenic a imaginable miscarriage of justice, the organisation said.

Letby, present 35, is serving 15 full beingness situation sentences aft being convicted of murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 7 others - including 1 she attacked twice.

All the offences took spot betwixt June 2015 and June 2016 portion the caregiver was moving astatine the neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The CCRC confirmed it had "received a preliminary exertion successful narration to Ms Letby's case, and enactment has begun to measure the application".

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