Tory MP says there's a '90 per cent chance' killer nurse Lucy Letby is innocent

A MP has demanded a retrial for killer nurse and says he is "90 odd per cent" certain that she is not guilty.

David Davis made the remarks after spending several months evaluating the evidence. It comes after the nurse was convicted at of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, between June 2015 and June 2016. However, Mr Davis believes other factors come into play such as hospital management that need to be assessed in a re-trial.

Speaking to Christopher Hope on , he said: "I haven't met with her [Letby]. I'm not worried about it. I'm not going to make a judgment of her innocence or guilt by looking at her and saying are you guilty? I'm judging on the on the evidence. I spent three months going through the ."

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Letby was slapped with a following the case which shocked the nation. But Mr Davis has since suggested alternative explanations surrounding the baby's deaths at Countess of Chester .

He added: "You can't be certain, but most likely 90 odd per cent not guilty. The most likely reason is one of two things either poor management by the or the Royal College found a superbug Pseudomonas. An investigation found that or both together. That's much more likely."

Letby has stated that she is innocent since she was first arrested in 2018. In notes written by , she stated: “I am evil I did this,” “I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough to care for them and I am a horrible evil person." However, it was later found out that the notes were written on the advice of professionals as a way of dealing with extreme , reports The Guardian. The notes helped build the case against the former nurse.

Peter Green, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), previously said: “The chart appears to be very convincing, but there are a number of issues with it. A big thing is that it only describes 25 of the bad events which happened in this period. It doesn’t include any of the events that happened when Lucy was not on .”

The inquiry is expected to sit until early 2025, with findings published by late autumn of that year.