Overview

• Letby’s barrister Mark McDonald has delivered extensive new material, including reports from a 14-member international expert panel, to the Criminal Cases Review Commission seeking a Court of Appeal referral.
• A defence-assembled panel has disputed the prosecution’s medical and statistical evidence by attributing the babies’ collapses to care failures or natural causes rather than deliberate harm.
• Victims’ families and Crown prosecutors have rejected the panel’s analysis as a rehash of defence arguments full of analytical gaps.
• Cheshire Constabulary transferred additional evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service and arrested and bailed three senior f Chester HoChester Hospital staff on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter over 2015-16 neonatal unit incidents.
• The Thirlwall Inquiry continues to probe hospital oversight and clinical governance, and Letby remains subject to an ACCT order at HMP Bronzefield with 15-minute welfare checks as scrutiny intensifies.