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Independent reviewers are preparing to look into claims that Lucy Letby is the victim of a miscarriage of justice, it emerged yesterday. Three members of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) are familiarising themselves with the case ahead of a formal application being lodged – although this is not thought to have happened yet. Tomorrow, the former neo-natal nurse’s defence team is expected to outline details of an independent review by a ‘blue-ribbon committee’ of 14 international medical experts into the seven murders and eight attempted murders of babies in her care. The 35-year-old is serving 15 whole life terms...

Farmer Tony Martin who shot and killed a teenage burglar at his house has died at the age of 80. The convicted killer was jailed in 2000 for the murder of 16-year-old Fred Barras and injury of 29-year-old Brendon Fearon after the pair entered his Norfolk home. Martin took matters into his own hands as he came downstairs with a pump-action shotgun in August 1999, confronting the pair and shooting Barras dead. He was jailed for murder but released three years later after the conviction was reduced to manslaughter. Since then, the pensioner has said he 'doesn't regret anything'. He...