Lucy Letby's lawyer says 'fresh' evidence will 'completely demolish' case
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The lawyer representing child serial killer Lucy Letby has handed over ‘fresh’ medical evidence which will ‘completely demolish’ the case against her, he claims.Mark McDonald has the full findings of a 14-strong international panel of neonatologists and paediatric specialists, who say poor medical care and natural causes were the reasons for babies collapsing at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit.Dr Shoo Lee, leader of the panel, said there was ‘no evidence’ Letby murdered any babies, blaming death and injuries on ‘natural causes or just bad medical care’.The barrister has handed over those findings, as well as a separate report from seven medics which claims the results of insulin tests on two infants, which a jury concluded Letby poisoned, were unreliable, to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).The CCRC investigates potential miscarriages of justice, and Mr McDonald says the new evidence ‘blows the case out of the water’.He added on Thursday: ‘Today I’ve put in 23...