The Trial of Lucy Letby
Hosted by Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull · The Crime Desk
3.9from 428 ratings
- 133
- Episodes
- 59
- Transcribed
- 428
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 3B
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About The Trial of Lucy Letby
To access episodes from previous series of The Trial, subscribe to The Crime Desk. Join today at thecrimedesk.com (thecrimedesk.com). Click here (https://link.news.dailymail.co.uk/join/4w5/crime-desk-sign-up) to sign up for The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. Lucy Letby is a child killer. Last year she was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to murder six more while working as a neo-natal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in the NW of England and was sentenced to spend her life in jail. She also went back in court to face a retrial on one charge the jury could not reach a verdict on - the alleged Attempted Murder of a premature baby girl, known as Baby K. She was found guilty once again. Follow the trial's evidence just as the jury do, with reports from Daily Mail northern correspondent Liz Hull and broadcast journalist Caroline Cheetham. In this podcast, they bring you far more detail about what the jury heard, examine key moments of the trial, and conduct exclusive interviews with investigative detectives, victims, and experts. The Trial goes behind the headlines of some of the biggest trials in the world. We take you into the courtroom, bringing you the detail as the evidence unfolds, examining key moments and carrying out exclusive interviews with detectives, victims, and experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The Crime Desk
- Category
- true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Oct 2022
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
59 of 133 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Inquiry: Babies Should Not Have Died
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Inquiry: The Hospital’s Day of Reckoning
26 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
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The Inquiry: Babies Should Not Have Died
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She said that there needed to be a clear route to the hospital board so that members of staff could escalate any concerning trends or patterns in deaths or collapses. And that goes back to that gulf, doesn't it, between what was happening on the neonatal unit, the managers and then the board. […]
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- YouTube views
- 3,353,385,328
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 403 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 66
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Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull host the show. Published by The Crime Desk.
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