Former British nurse and convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby on Thursday lost an attempt to appeal against her conviction for trying to murder a newborn baby, amid questions over the fairness of her trials. <\/p>\n
Letby, 34, was found guilty of murdering seven children and attempting to murder seven more between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, northern England, making her Britain\u2019s worst serial child killer of modern times. <\/p>\n
She was convicted of an eighth count of attempted murder at a retrial earlier this year, after the original jury was unable to reach a verdict on a charge that Letby tried to kill a baby girl by removing her breathing tube. <\/p>\n
Prosecutor Nick Johnson told Manchester Crown Court that, little more than an hour after the child was born, a senior doctor found the baby\u2019s breathing tube dislodged and Letby standing there \u201cdoing nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Letby\u2019s lawyer Benjamin Myers told London\u2019s Court of Appeal on Thursday that Letby \u201cmaintains and has maintained she is not guilty of the offenses.\u201d <\/p>\n
He argued that the retrial was an abuse of process as Letby could not have a fair trial because of extensive coverage of her convictions, which featured \u201cintense hostility towards her\u201d and comments made by the Crown Prosecution Service and police. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no way in which the jury in trial two were going to have the publicity and the comment and the hostility ameliorated,\u201d Myers said. <\/p>\n
Judge William Davis refused Letby\u2019s application for leave to appeal against the conviction from her retrial. <\/p>\n
Letby attended the hearing by videolink from prison and sat impassively as the judge stated the court\u2019s reasons for refusing her application. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe outcome of the first trial undoubtedly led to an unusually large amount of publicity and online debate,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThat is because, on its face, the case was extraordinary.\u201d <\/p>\n
Letby\u2019s attempt to overturn her convictions from the first trial was refused in May. She can now only challenge those convictions if the Criminal Cases Review Commission refer those cases back to the Court of Appeal. <\/p>\n
Since her trials, Letby\u2019s conviction has come under a spotlight, following criticism by some experts of medical and statistical evidence presented by the prosecution. <\/p>\n
Some media have questioned whether she might be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, while a public inquiry into her crimes continues. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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