An expert witness has described criticisms of his evidence by Lucy Letby’s lawyers as “unsubstantiated, unfounded, inaccurate”.
On Monday, the former neonatal nurse’s legal team revealed they would ask the Court of Appeal to immediately review all of her convictions.
They alleged lead prosecution expert Dr Dewi Evans had altered his view about how three babies died at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
In a statement, Mr Evans said he had neither received any formal notification of the announcement nor any correspondence from Letby’s barrister Mark McDonald or his team.
Letby is serving 15 whole-life jail terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.
Mr McDonald told a news conference in London on Monday that Dr Evans had altered his view about how babies had died.
He said: “Remarkably, Dr Evans has now changed his mind on the cause of death of three of the babies: Baby C, Baby I and Baby P.”
Letby was convicted in August 2023 and has twice previously been refused permission to appeal against her convictions.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the court had previously rejected Letby’s argument that expert witness evidence presented by the prosecution was “flawed”.
