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06 June 2025
Issue: 8119 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Procedure & practice , Media
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NLJ this week: A Lucy Letby retrial could struggle in storm of speculation

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In this week’s NLJ, David Walbank KC, Red Lion Chambers, discusses the potential for retrial in the case of Lucy Letby. Letby is back in the news amid doubts over the evidence used to convict the former Countess of Chester Hospital nurse. But, given the storm of media analysis, and the ‘deluge of analysis, comment and speculation that continues to engulf social media’, could a reassessment be carried out fairly?

Walbank writes: ‘Rarely in modern English criminal history can charges of murder most foul have generated so many column inches or such lurid headlines as in the case of Lucy Letby.’ 

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