Overview

• The Crown Prosecution Service has received a full file from Cheshire Constabulary’s Operation Hummingbird and will independently decide whether to bring new charges over baby deaths and collapses from 2012 to 2016.
• Letby’s legal team submitted a 698-page report from international experts to the Criminal Cases Review Commission this month, challenging the original trial evidence.
• Under HMP Bronzefield’s Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, Letby and fellow inmate Beinash Batool have secured private access to the prison’s hair and nail salon and the staff café Vita Nova.
• Prison sources say each time Letby and Batool visit those facilities, they are closed to other inmates for security reasons, sparking anger among the 550-strong female population.
• Letby remains under enhanced protection as she pursues appeals and awaits the CPS’s decision on whether to press further charges.