“It makes me feel ill just thinking about it,” she said.
The protesters did not have any personal connection to the case but had chosen to attend a “Free Lucy Letby” demonstration outside Liverpool Town Hall.
This follows two separate trials at which juries – who heard weeks of detailed evidence – found Letby guilty of deliberately harming babies.
Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others (Photo: Cheshire Constabulary/AFP)
Chairperson Lady Justice Thirlwall revealed this week she has received a letter from Letby’s legal team asking for the inquiry to be paused because of new evidence they have gathered from a panel of experts which calls into question the prosecution.
Legal representatives for members of the senior management at the Countess of Chester have also asked for the inquiry to be paused.
For those who have travelled from all over the country and beyond to attend the protest in Liverpool, there is only one acceptable outcome – Letby must be exonerated.
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He has no medical background but has set up a YouTube channel discussing the case which has proved hugely popular – another protester approached Mr Mayes and described him as “famous”.
“Going back to the first trial, you can just see how this sort of scapegoating can happen in organisations. I was watching a video on YouTube about the NHS – people have got to realise these kinds of things happen to people.”
Chair of the independent inquiry, senior appeal court judge Kate Thirlwall (Photo: Peter Byrne/Pool/ AFP)Commentary on social media has also been free of the tight reporting restrictions which has restricted what can be published by mainstream news organisations.
“It’s such a delicate matter, it’s such a traumatic matter… people feel they’ve been essentially lied to.”
Body-worn camera footage issued by Cheshire Constabulary of the arrest of Lucy Letby (Photo: Cheshire Constabulary/PA)
Among them was Janet Cox, a former friend of Letby’s who worked with her at the Countess of Chester and who has maintained her belief in Letby’s innocence throughout the prosecution.
“This is a tiny sample of the actual support that Lucy Letby has, particularly in the health sector,” said Kate Klein, who helped organise the protest via the Partisan Defence Committee, which describes itself as “class struggle” organisation.
“The NHS is in a dire state, everybody knows that, like the Countess of Chester where Lucy worked. A lot of it is underfunded, understaffed, under-resourced and bad things happen.”
“I think it’s because of the monstrosity of the case, the way she was paraded as a baby killer,” she said. “And then when you look to the actual evidence, that has been shredded by [Letby’s new lawyer] Mark McDonald, you see what a massive fit-up it was.
All those approached by The i Paper at the Letby protest conveyed a wider sense of distrust in the systems of power in the UK and sympathy with the idea of being unfairly persecuted.
“There is a kind of comradeship, people who have experiences who’ve been mistreated, bullied at work,” said Mr Mayes.
“We’re not going away.”
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