Child serial killer nurse Lucy Letby was denied her initial bid to challenge her convictions.
The 34-year-old nurse was sentenced to 14 whole life sentences after she was found guilty of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others.
In September last year, Letby lodged an appeal against all of her convictions. However, the Court of Appeal has since refused her application after considering the case documents, a judicial spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday.
Applications for permission to appeal a crown court decision are typically considered by a judge without a hearing. If this is refused, criminals have 14 days to renew their request.
The seven murders and six attempted murders took place between June 2015 to June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit, where nurse Letby worked.
In December, the vile nurse was stripped of her nursing credentials after a panel ordered she be struck off from the register at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing.
The panel found she was unfit to practise nursing before it went on to make the striking-off order, a move they have heard Letby does not resist, despite maintaining her innocence in respect of her convictions.
At a hearing in Stratford, east London, on Tuesday, panel chairman Bernard Herdan said: “She deliberately inflicted extreme harm on the most vulnerable of victims.”
He added that her actions were “so serious that to allow her to continue practising would pose an unacceptable risk to the public and would undermine public confidence in the profession”.
The chairman also said she abused her position of trust as a nurse, has shown no remorse and that there were no mitigating factors.
