Inside a nondescript office building in Birmingham, opposite a nail bar and a branch of Costa coffee, investigators are tasked with reviewing what some believe is the worst miscarriage of justice in British history.

This is the headquarters of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), a government-funded but independent legal watchdog set up in 1997.

It represents the last chance for Lucy Letby, the former neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital currently serving 15 whole life orders at HMP Bronzefield for murdering and harming babies in her care. New Feature

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Only the CCRC has the power to send her case back to the Court of Appeal after her previous applications were refused. Letby’s legal team submitted an application in

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