Medical witness who helped jail Lucy Letby is physically ATTACKED by one of her supporters: Police probe assault as 'sick' campaign to free her from jail explodes

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A campaign to free baby killer Lucy Letby has turned hostile – with one medical witness said to have been physically assaulted by an activist with ‘pro-Letby’ beliefs. 

Neonatal nurse Letby, 34, is serving 15 whole-life sentences after she was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. 

However, campaigns have been calling for her to be freed as activists claim the nurse’s conviction for killing the infants is not safe. 

Her parents Susan and John Letby are actively hoping to overturn what they believe is ‘the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history,’ sources claimed. 

One medical witness who gave evidence for the prosecution claimed they were physically assaulted last week by a member of the public with ‘pro-Letby beliefs’, The Sunday Times first reported. 

The witness said they have since reported the attack to Cheshire police, who confirmed they were investigating. 

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Lucy Letby, 34, (pictured) was found guilty last year of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital

Lucy Letby, 34, (pictured) was found guilty last year of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital

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Meanwhile, another medical witness claimed they were considering referring a number of messages via social media to the police.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has branded the calls to free Letby as ‘crass and insensitive’. 

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He said the public should continue to view the former nurse as a murderer amid growing demands for her release. 

Asked about the row by LBC’s Lewis Goodall, Mr Streeting said: ‘It is crass and insensitive to be waging a public campaign in this way. Because we can debate it, you and I, listeners can debate it, we can read the newspapers.

‘We’re not the Criminal Case Review Board. We have an independent judiciary in this country, I think we have a fair and successful independent judiciary in this country.’

Letby’s parents’ calls for the convictions to be revisited have outraged the parents of two babies targeted by the serial killer, who worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire. 

Letby was given a whole life order for killing babies in a neonatal unit

 Letby was given a whole life order for killing babies in a neonatal unit 

Letby worked at the Countess of Chester hospital (pictured) when she killed the infants on the hospital's neonatal ward

Letby worked at the Countess of Chester hospital (pictured) when she killed the infants on the hospital’s neonatal ward

Baby E was murdered by Letby after she caused an internal bleed and injected the baby with air. Baby F was one of the survivors of Letby’s attempts to kill despite being poisoned with insulin. 

The parents of the two youngsters, who were twins born to a mother following a number of IVF attempts after she had been told she could not have children, have hit out at those who claim their children had not been attacked by the nurse.

They sat through the trial in full – and have criticised campaigners who they say were not present in court to hear all of the evidence.

Some of those who have signed open letters calling for Letby’s convictions to be reexamined have also refused to identify themselves, claiming that to do so would jeopardise their careers. 




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