Lucy Letby: 'I call baby killer once a fortnight and visit her every month'

Lucy Letby is in near-constant conversation with her greatest advocate, who continues to work on the convicted baby killer's case even whilst onholiday with his young children.

Letby, 35, is serving 15 whole-life sentences at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey, after she was found guilty of the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of seven others between 2015 and 2016. She has lost two bids to appeal against her convictions, but her legal representatives remain undeterred, with her lawyer Mark McDonald having given the former nurse "new hope".

Mr McDonald, 59, has confessed to spending thousands of hours on her case, and revealed that he is keeping regular contact with the imprisoned killer.

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Speaking to the Sunday Times while on holiday with his three and four-year-old children, Mr McDonald said he chats with the killer at least once every fortnight and visits her monthly at Bronzefield prison, in Ashford, Surrey. He said: "I'm on holiday in Devon and I'm working on (the case). I had a telephone conference with Lucy yesterday. I won't stop. I will not stop until she is out.

The lawyer added that an important part of the case is to "win the public narrative" of a potential miscarriage of justice case before tackling the legal narrative.

He said: "The Court of Appeal will know that the country is going to be looking at them." Despite her having gone through the appeals process more than once without success, Mr McDonald added that the once "broken" Letby has "new hope" as he claimed to having submitted mountains of evidence to the court.

He said: "Remember, 12 months ago, she'd lost every argument. She had been saying that she was not guilty right from the beginning and nobody believed her.

"She went through a whole trial and she was convicted. She went to the Court of Appeal and she was convicted. She had a retrial; she was convicted. She went to the Court of Appeal again; she was convicted. And that was it. There, you have a broken person. But today, after everything that has happened in the last 12 months, she's got new hope."

The barrister claimed he's never submitted this much evidence to the CCRC and "if this is not referred back to the Court of Appeal then one has to question the purpose of the CCRC".

In July, Cheshire Police submitted evidence of additional allegations related to infant deaths and collapses at the hospitals where Letby, 35, worked. The possible offences against Letby are now under review by lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).