After assessing the cases of 17 babies cited at her original trial, a panel of world-renowned specialists said that they had found no evidence that Lucy Letby had murdered anyone.

LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for British nurse Lucy Letby on Tuesday launched a new bid to overthrow her conviction for killing seven babies, after a group of international medical experts who reexamined evidence used at her trial concluded none had actually been murdered.

A panel of expects is disputing the medical evidence used to convict British nurse Lucy Letby of murdering seven newborns and trying to kill seven others

After assessing the cases of 17 babies at the heart of the British nurse’s murder trials, a panel of specialists said that they had found no evidence that Ms. Letby had murdered anyone.

Citing an expert review of the prosecution's arguments, a lawyer for nurse Lucy Letby says there's "overwhelming evidence" she was wrongly convicted of murder.

Lucy Letby, a former neonatal nurse in the U.K., was found guilty in two trials, in 2023 and 2024, of murdering seven premature infants and attempting to murder seven others. But Dr. Shoo Lee, the retired head of the neonatology department at the University of Toronto,

Lucy Letby, a nurse in England, was convicted of murdering 7 babies in her care. Coverage of the trial was heavily restricted in the UK, with local media unable to do much but convey the impression of an overwhelming case against her.