A Senior Tory MP last night claimed there is ‘a great deal of evidence’ suggesting Lucy Letby is innocent and called for a retrial.
Sir David Davis said a jury could come to a different conclusion if certain details not heard during Letby’s trials featured in a fresh hearing.
He also claimed her convictions were based on ‘flawed’ and ‘bogus’ evidence and witnesses, which meant there had been a ‘clear miscarriage of justice’.
The MP and former Cabinet minister spent several months looking into the child serial killer’s case and made the claims in the Commons after being granted time to debate it.
But after finishing his 15-minute address, sources close to the case dismissed several of his claims as simply not true.
Letby, of Hereford, is serving 15 life sentences after being convicted of murdering seven infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital and attempting to murder seven others – with two attempts on one victim – between June 2015-2016.
She lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.
Sir David Davis, a former Cabinet minister, believes a new trial ‘would come to a different conclusion’ over the convicted child serial killer
Lucy Letby, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court
Sir David said he ‘initially accepted’ the characterisation of Letby as an ‘evil monster’.
But he told MPs he was later approached by a string of experts concerned by ‘what they perceived as false analyses’ used to convict Letby.
He said a report, by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – after the hospital noticed a sharp increase in infant deaths in 2016 – had noted its neonatal unit was suffering from ‘many failings’.
He told MPs: ‘The report, offering completely different reasons for the deaths, was never shown to the jury.’
Cheshire police are investigating 4,000 infants Letby treated during the ‘footprint’ of her five-year career.
