Ms. Letby is serving 15 life sentences after the deaths and collapses of babies in the neonatal unit where she worked. On Thursday judges will consider whether she can appeal one of her convictions.

The former neonatal nurse is due to ask three senior judges at the Court of Appeal for approval to challenge her conviction for trying to kill the newborn, known as Child K. She was handed her 15th whole life order in July after being found guilty in a retrial.

Child serial killer Lucy Letby says her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl should be overturned because her trial was tainted by “unadulterated vitriol”, judges have heard. The 34-year-old former nurse is serving a whole life prison sentence after she was convicted of seven murders and seven attempted murders against babies in her care.

Ms. Letby, a neonatal nurse in England, was convicted of murdering seven babies last year. But a growing number of experts have raised concerns about the evidence.

Former British nurse and convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby on Thursday asked a London court to let her appeal against her conviction for trying to murder a newborn baby, amid questions over the fairness of her trials.

I'm constantly paranoid - the trial has caused huge divides and damaged our relationship with the families we care for

Child serial killer Lucy Letby is set to have a bid to appeal against her latest conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl heard at the Court of Appeal.

Former nurse Letby, 34, was previously sentenced to 14 whole life orders for the murders of 7 babies and attempted murders of 6.