The Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said that it’s wrong for people to campaign for Lucy Letby’s convictions to be challenged
Speaking on LBC earlier today, Streeting said:
“It’s still the case Lucy Letby has been convicted… what I’d say to those campaigners, is that there is a judicial process to follow if people think there has been a mistake or wrongly conviction.”
He added:
”Consider those grieving parents who have lost their babies. I still think waging a campaign in this way, in the wake of these convictions. is not the right thing to do.
“Until I’m told otherwise by the courts of this land, I continue to stand by the view that there’s been a fair conviction here, that’s how justice in this country runs.”
His intervention followed yesterday’s story in which her former boss Karen Rees who offered to give evidence for Letby’s defence but was never called, said she always believed her to be innocent.
However, Rees’s lawyers advised her to publicly denounce the nurse after she was besieged by press in the wake of Letby’s conviction
Rees, who retired as Head of Nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital in March 2018, met Letby for the first time in the summer of 2016 when she had to tell the nurse she was being removed from the neonatal unit after concerns about her “clinical practice.”
She told The Sunday Times, that over the next two years she met with Letby regularly and developed a close relationship with the nurse.
She said “What I saw was a very frightened young woman who was shocked and bewildered.”
