Lucy Letby retrial backed by Nadine Dorries as she suggests killer nurse was 'framed': 'The truth will finally come out!'

Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life terms for murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.

Letby's case has been revisited in a new Netflix show, which hears testimonials from medical experts who suggest there may have been a "miscarriage of justice" against her.

Discussing the case, Mrs Dorries told the People's Channel: "Yes, there is so much about this case. The longer you study it, the more you read about the actual trial and the case itself. I'm a former nurse too, and I also worked in a special care baby unit in Myrtle Street Children's Hospital in Liverpool for short while many years ago in another life.

"And that's what really sparked my interest in this initially, and also the fact that every nurse I spoke to whispered to me 'but she didn't do this'."

She explained: "There was absolutely nothing evidential, it was all circumstantial. Nobody saw Lucy do anything. She's even serving a life sentence now for the murder of one baby which has being disproved following her sentencing. The chief witness to who led the jury wasn't a neonatologist.

"There are a panel of 30 neonatologists and experts who've read the notes of the trial and the baby's notes since she was convicted, and each and every one of them have said the babies died of natural causes and suboptimal care in the hospital. Not one neonatologist has looked at those babies notes and said this was murder, they've all said the complete opposite and that is the basis for a retrial."

Responding to Mrs Dorries's argument, host Dawn Neesom said: "I just think we have to remember the seven sets of parents who lost babies in this, and our thoughts are with them. And they obviously are reliving this all over again, which must be incredibly painful.

"But Lucy Letby also has aging parents, and I'm just not entirely sure that the footage of her being arrested in her bedroom that day is necessary. Does it help the parents of the dead babies? It feels to me like titillation, I'm not sure this adds anything to the case, either for or against it."

Mrs Dorries agreed: "You're absolutely right, there is nothing worse than losing a baby, and I completely understand that. But I'm sure those parents also couldn't live with themselves if they thought somebody, a young woman, had her life taken and was put in prison for the rest of her life for something that she didn't do.

"This footage that you're seeing in this Netflix documentary, the jury didn't even have access to. And it's completely blown up because in that footage is evidence that Lucy was telling the truth in court and not lying."

As host Eamonn Holmes made clear that Letby was found guilty by a jury in trial, Mrs Dorries responded: "The jurors were given 30,000 pages of complex medical information and but which they just simply could neither understand nor digest.

"And it is widely believed by myself, by Lucy's legal defence team and by many others, including the many experts and neonatologists who've been studying her case, that circumstantial evidence was used to fit to frame Lucy and to put somebody into prison."

She added: "Clusters of baby deaths in hospitals are sadly not common, but also not a phenomenon, and I think we need to go back to the genesis of this. Who called the police and why? What was the purpose?

"It was quite clear that these babies who were very, very poorly, very premature, some weighing only one and a half pounds with very complex medical needs, it's quite obvious when you read the notes that these babies were very poorly and they died of natural causes, but also had suboptimal clinical care providers."

Pressed on what she believes should happen next in the Letby case, Mrs Dorries said: "Her case has been referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission on the basis of the new evidence particularly provided by the neonatologist, some of the leading neonatologists, not just in this country, but across the world, who have all been mildly outraged at what's happened and have put together a report which has gone to the Criminal Cases Review Commission requesting a retrial.

"And we hope, I think probably the nation will hope soon, I certainly know most nurses across the country do hope that Lucy will be granted a retrial, and that the truth will finally come out about what happened to them."

She concluded: "In prison, she's not allowed a voice. Lucy has requested that I go and visit her, and she requested that many months ago. And it has not happened yet.

"I've been in contact with the prison governor, and I'm not sure it's not an issue with the prison governor or the prison itself, but we're looking into that now as to why that's not happened."

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