Supporters who believe convicted murderer Lucy Letby is innocent are considering holding a Valentine’s ‘speed dating’ night after throwing the killer nurse a birthday party last month
Supporters of Lucy Letby who held a birthday party for the killer nurse are now planning a speed dating night.
The ghoulish group created on social media for people protesting the 35-year-old’s innocence have been using it to plan social events – the latest being a Valentines’ Day do. Evil ex-nurse Letby is facing the rest of her life behind bars after being sentenced to 15 whole life orders for the murders of seven babies, and seven further attempts to murder, while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
She was convicted across two trials at Manchester crown court, and has since lodged two failed bids for the convictions to be reviewed. However, increasing speculation has been gathering over the safety of Letby’s convictions, and “new” evidence was presented to a panel of experts on Tuesday.
Among those who believe in Letby’s innocence are a twisted group of supporters on Facebook, who last month held a bizarre birthday celebration at The Windmill pub in Clapham, South London, for the ex-nurse, to which only four people turned up. Pictures from the celebration showed a cake with “Lucy 35” piped in icing and a banner stating “a blatant miscarriage of justice”.
Now users on the Facebook group have been discussing another event this month. User Lulu Tee took to the platform announcing plans for a possible speed dating night on Valentine’s Day, writing: “If any singles (or married people, don’t worry, I won’t judge) are interested, please let me know in the comments.”
Spokespersons for the pub’s operators, Youngs, told The Sun they had not been aware of the previous party, and that any such future event would be blocked.
It comes after the mother of one of Letby’s infant victims slammed the growing movement believing in the convicted killer’s innocence as a “publicity stunt”. The mum, whose son was one of the six Letby attempted to murder, said: “Every aspect of what they are doing is so disrespectful, it is very upsetting. They said the parents want to know the truth, but we’ve had the truth. We believe in the British justice system, we believe the jury made the right decision.”
Tuesday’s two-hour press conference heard from 14 neonatologists and paediatric specialists who believed the babies’ deaths, or near-deaths, were more likely due to bad medical care or natural causes. Dr Shoo Lee who co-authored a 1989 academic paper on air embolism in babies which featured prominently in Letby’s trial, said it was his medical opinion the evidence “doesn’t support murder in any of these babies – just natural causes and bad medical care”.
“Death or injury of all the affected infants were due either to natural causes or to errors in medical care. There were serious problems related to medical care of patients at this hospital. In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders.”