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Lucy Letby Facts

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Michael Mansfield KC

Civil-liberties barrister

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Main contribution

Career miscarriage-of-justice silk (Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, Hillsborough). Public commentary since 2023 identifying the Letby case as a miscarriage in the making.

Key claim

The Letby case displays the structural features of previous English miscarriages of justice.

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Michael Mansfield KC — biography

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Post-conviction legal commentators.