A former UK neonatal nurse and convicted child killer Lucy Letby has replaced her legal team and is planning a new appeal, her new barrister says.
Letby, 34, was convicted in two separate trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others under her care while she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
She was sentenced to 15 whole-life terms at the end of her first trial, and would spend the rest of her life in prison.
Letby has tried to appeal her convictions twice, both of which were denied.
Her new barrister Mark McDonald told the BBC he knew "almost from the start" that there was a strong case Letby may be innocent and said he planed to seek reviews into her case.
McDonald planned to take her case back to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to apply for it to then be sent back to the Court of Appeal.
"The fact is juries get it wrong. And yes, so do the Court of Appeal, history teaches us that," he told the BBC.
An inquiry into the hospital, as well as into the way the National Health Service handled the case, was due to begin on September 10.
A group of experts, including neonatologists and statisticians, asked the UK government in a private letter to either postpone or change the terms of the inquiry.
The letter outlined their concerns about the way statistics and science around newborns were presented to the jury at Letby's first trial.
"While we acknowledge the gravity of the convictions against Ms Letby, our focus is on the broader implications for patient safety, healthcare management, and the potential for miscarriages of justice in complex medical cases," the letter said.
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