Child serial killer Lucy Letby refused to have her case retried following her attempted murder conviction…

October 24, 2024, 12:55 | Updated: October 24, 2024, 1:06 p.m

Serial killer Lucy Letby was refused a retrial after her latest attempt to challenge her conviction was rejected by the Court of Appeal.

A killer nurse, considered Britain’s most prolific serial killer, was on Thursday denied the right to challenge her conviction for attempting to murder her infant daughter.

Letby, 34, is currently serving 15 life sentences in connection with the deaths of children in her care.

Lawyers for the former nurse have asked senior judges for permission to appeal her latest conviction after a retrial in July found them guilty of attempting to kill the newborn baby known as Baby K.

On Thursday, lawyers for a former nurse told the Court of Appeal that the attempted murder charge should be “upheld” on the grounds of an “abuse of process” due to the “overwhelming and irreversible bias” caused by media coverage of her first trial, and that a retrial should not have had places.

However, after a hearing in London, three senior judges rejected Letby’s offer.

Justice William Davis, sitting with Justice Jeremy Baker and Justice McGowan, stated at the beginning of his ruling that they would “refuse to allow” Letby to challenge the verdict.

Letby, 34, was previously sentenced to 14 full life sentences for the murders of seven children and the attempted murders of six other children and two attempted murders of one child, and was also handed a 15th total life sentence for the attack on Child K.

Thursday’s ruling means the dismissal of Letby’s second appeal after the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against her first set of convictions in May.

Court officials today confirmed that Britain’s most prolific child killer will appeal against her attempted murder conviction in July.

The appeal hearing will take place on October 24, the list of courts announced today.

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Letby, from Hereford, is serving 15 life sentences after being convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven children and attempting to murder seven other children in two attacks on one of her victims between June 2015 and June 2016.

Earlier this year, judges rejected her bid to challenge these conventions.

Two months later, in July, Levity was given an additional life sentence for the attempted murder of his infant daughter after a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in June and July.

The identities of the surviving children cannot be revealed due to reporting restrictions.

This week, the parents of the child Letby murdered told how a nurse tried to “savor for herself the moments of their son’s dying.”

The new claims come amid an ongoing public inquiry into the continued practice of a killer nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital – despite concerns being raised with hospital governors.

The parents of Letby’s third victim, Child C, emotionally recalled hugging their dying son when they were told he could not be saved.

The child’s father told officers: “Reflecting on it, I think she (Letby) was trying to savor the moments of my son dying for herself, which fills me with both emotion and anger, if I hadn’t challenged her, she would have intruded even more on our private farewell.”

The parents told investigators that she was “kept in the dark” about their child’s death – particularly by the hospital’s medical director.

This happened when the mother of Child C, who was murdered by Letby, demanded a direct apology from the hospital’s medical director.