Lucy Letby should face a retrial, Sir David Davis has told Parliament, as he claimed the NHS was “most likely” responsible for baby deaths at her hospital.

No hard evidence against Lucy Letby’ senior Tory claims as he calls for retrial - Sir David Davis said there was no ‘hard evidence’ implicating Letby and the case against her was ‘built on a poor understanding of probabilities’.

Sir David Davis told MPs there was no 'hard evidence' of convicted baby killer Lucy Letby's guilt, and compared the case to infamous miscarriages of justice including the Birmingham Six

The former nurse murdered seven babies and tried to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016 and Mr Hunt admitted that, as health secretary at the time, "you do have ultimate responsibility".

A Conservative MP who believes convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby should face a retrial will lead a House of Commons debate on her case on Wednesday. Former cabinet minister Sir David Davis has spent time probing the case of the former nurse and believes a retrial would “come to a different conclusion”.

Sir David claimed "erroneous" statistical evidence against Letby was even worse than the ultimately discredited data used against Cheshire solicitor Sally Clark, whose conviction for murdering her two sons was overturned in 2003.

Sir David says the former nurse's conviction was "built on a poor understanding of probabilities" and lacked "hard evidence".

Sir David Davis said there was no ‘hard evidence’ implicating Letby and the case against her was ‘built on a poor understanding of probabilities’.