2 h. ago Killer Constance Marten is seeking to launch an appeal against her baby death conviction

Marten, 38, and her partner Mark Gordon, 51, are currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence of their baby, Victoria, in 2023.

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19 h. ago Baby killer Constance Marten calls prosecutors 'Harry Potter dementors' in jail tell

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, went on the run with their newborn daughter before the baby was found partly decomposed in a shopping bag in Brighton back in March 2023

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26 h. ago NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby's old friends have told me the truth about her. Forget what you've read, this is who she REALLY is

Yet another week has passed in which Lucy Letby, 35, has had to while away endless hours in the prison cell where she is condemned to spend the rest of her life.

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38 h. ago Lucy Letby: Eight things we've learned about killer nurse's life behind bars

Letby, despite having been sentenced to spend the rest of her life behind bars, has found a way to chalk out a cushy existence in the murderer's wing at HMP Bronzefield

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55 h. ago Lucy Letby under round the clock protection after taunted by prison mates

Lucy Letby is under guard protection after claims that she's taunted over the press coverage around her case and fears that the baby killer has become 'deluded' and thinks she will be out soon

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66 h. ago Lucy Letby's barrister admits he talks to nurse 'every week' and says convicted baby killer has 'new hope' as calls grow for case to be reexamined

Mark McDonald said in an interview how Lucy Letby's parents contacted almost a year ago and requested he take over from her previous lawyer and free her from prison.

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67 h. ago Lucy Letby: 'I call baby killer once a fortnight and visit her every month'

Lawyers for the 35-year-old former nurse are doggedly pursuing a retrial as she serves out 15 whole-life sentences at HMP Bronzefield for the murders of seven babies

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69 h. ago Lucy Letby has 'new hope' as barrister prepares to submit appeal file

Mark McDonald is submitting “new evidence” to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)

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2 d. ago Lucy Letby 'has new hope' as lawyer says baby killer 'was broken' and 'hopeless'

Lucy Letby's lawyer Mark McDonald has said he is "not naive" and knows the serial baby killer is "guilty", but he is determined to free her from prison where she is currently serving 15 whole-life sentences

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3 d. ago Bombshell new Lucy Letby papers and astonishing 'revenge' claim revealed: How the nurse repeatedly raised alarm over doctors' blunders in baby unit... Now her team say she became a target

Lucy Letby repeatedly raised the alarm about the poor care of babies in the hospital where she worked, according to bombshell documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

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3 d. ago Lucy Letby's barrister says child killer was 'broken person' but now has 'new hope'

Mr McDonald said he is submitting "new evidence" to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

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8 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: I'm pleased public sentiment on Lucy Letby has shifted

How public opinion can change. Do you remember reporters rushing from the Manchester courthouse in 2023, breathlessly exclaiming, 'She's guilty!', moments after Lucy Letby's conviction?

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8 d. ago Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? review – just when you thought this case couldn’t get any more confusing

Panorama’s new investigation into the convicted nurse is muddled and stuffed with conflicting theories. It feels more like radio phone-in bickering than serious journalismIn May 2024, the New Yorker published an article with the headline “A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?” Access to the online version of Rachel Aviv’s piece was banned in the UK due to reporting restrictions, with Letby’s retrial on an additional count of attempted murder then imminent. Rules aside, asking whether Letby was in fact innocent also felt taboo at the time, a pursuit for social media conspiracy theorists. Fast forward 15 months, and “did she do it?” is merely par for the course when it comes to the case, with even experts cited by the prosecution apparently unconvinced of Letby’s guilt.This new Panorama comes hot on the heels of an ITV documentary that aired earlier this month, Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?. That programme focused on holes in the evidence that...

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8 d. ago Expert's new Lucy Letby 'smoking gun' theory claims evidence 'proves she's innocent'

While Lucy Letby remains in prison serving over a dozen whole-life sentences, new evidence unearthed has cast the entirety of the prosecution's case into doubt, an expert has said

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8 d. ago When is Panorama: Lucy Letby Who to Believe? on TV? BBC start time and what to expect

Lucy Letby will be the subject of BBC’s Panorama this week 📺

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9 d. ago Baby killer Constance Marten ‘target for rude awakening’ after ‘sneering at inmates'

Constance Marten behaves like she is 'above the jail and everyone in it' a prison source claimed. The murderer mum-of-four is locked up in HMP Bronzefield in Surrey as she awaits sentencing.

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1 week ago Lucy Letby’s hospital slammed for A&E failings over ‘unsafe’ corridor care that left elderly patients delirious

Eldery patients were left in ‘dark and noisy’ corridors in trust’s ‘gridlocked’ A&E

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1 week ago Baby killer Constance Marten compares prosecutors to Harry Potter Dementors in prison diatribe

Constance Marten has complained about her treatment during her Old Bailey manslaughter trial

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1 week ago Emergency care at Lucy Letby hospital falls short of legal standards, CQC finds

Countess of Chester receives urgent warning notice over ‘visibly dirty equipment’ and routine corridor careEmergency care at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked is falling far short of legal standards, the healthcare watchdog has found, with routine corridor care and “critical gaps” in sepsis treatment.The Countess of Chester hospital, in north-west England, was issued with an urgent warning notice after inspectors found “repeated breaches” of regulations in its emergency care unit. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Lucy Letby 'very likely' innocent, Peter Hitchens declares on new Mail podcast after release of explosive ITV documentary

Lucy Letby's case must be immediately 'reopened in the courts', Peter Hitchens has argued following the release of a documentary that raises serious questions about evidence used to convict the nurse.

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