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Child serial killer Lucy Letby has been denied permission to appeal against her convictions for the murder and attempted murder of babies in her care when she worked as a neonatal nurse. <\/p>\n
Letby, of Hereford, was convicted in August 2023 of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n
Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde, said they had refused Letby’s request to bring an appeal at a short Court of Appeal hearing earlier.<\/p>\n
The full reasons for the judges’ decision were not made public, with the full details of Letby’s appeal bid also unable to be published for legal reasons.<\/p>\n
Dame Victoria said: “Having heard her application, we have decided to refuse leave to appeal on all grounds and refuse all associated applications.<\/p>\n
“A full judgment will be handed down in due course.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Shortly after her trial ended in August, Letby applied for leave to appeal against her convictions.<\/p>\n
She lost the first stage of the process, in which a single judge reviewed her arguments as a paper exercise.<\/p>\n
At a two-and-a-half day hearing last month, lawyers for the former nurse renewed efforts to bring an appeal before a panel of three judges.<\/p>\n
As the judges have now declined to give the go-ahead for the challenge, this ruling marks the end of the appeal process for Letby.<\/p>\n
Dame Victoria previously said it could be reported that her appeal was argued on four points related to the judge at her trial refusing legal applications.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old will face a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in June on a single count that she attempted to murder a baby girl, known as Child K, in February 2016.<\/p>\n
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