Lucy Letby renews bid to appeal her convictions

Lucy Letby is the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history

A public hearing will be held to determine whether Lucy Letby should be given permission to appeal against her convictions for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six.

The former nurse was told last week she had lost the first stage of the process when a single judge considered her case as a paper exercise.

Letby has now renewed her application to appeal.

It means there will be a hearing before a full court of three judges.

They will decide whether leave to appeal should be granted at the hearing, which does not yet have a fixed date.

If she wins the hearing, an appeal would then be listed by the court, but if she loses it, there would be no further avenue for her to try at this immediate stage.

In August, the nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.

She was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison.

Separately, Letby is still facing a retrial on one count of attempted murder, which the jury in her trial was unable to reach a verdict on.

That trial is scheduled to begin in June.