Interview with Solicitor Lulu Minns On Lucy Letby

Lulu Minns, a criminal defence solicitor with twelve years of experience including CCRC casework, examines the Letby conviction through the lens of gender and institutional power. She draws direct parallels with the wrongful convictions of Donna Anthony, Sally Clark, and Angela Cannings — all mothers convicted on flawed expert paediatric evidence — and argues that female defendants face a compounding set of biases: they are expected to be either perfectly maternal or irredeemably monstrous, with no space for the complexity of human behaviour. Minns argues that Lucy Letby's compliance, her trust in institutional authority, and her failure to assert herself in police interviews are all explicable as features of her personality and upbringing, not as evidence of guilt. She is concerned about the CCRC process and its historically low referral rate, and argues that the volume and quality of new expert evidence now available makes this case exceptional.