Wes Streeting said that Lucy Letby’s fate should be decided by the courts and not campaigners, as a new documentary, The Investigation Of Lucy Letby, has been released on Netflix.

He told LBC News: “Unless and until there is a judicial process that says that the court has got it wrong, I have to continue to have confidence in the court’s judgments, and I’m certainly not going to provide a running commentary.

“I can see there’s an active campaign on this, and there is a judicial process. If people think the courts have got it wrong, they can bring forward their evidence. They can test it and challenge it in the usual way.

“But it’s absolutely not for me to comment. As far as I’m concerned, Lucy Letby is a convicted criminal and convicted of some of the most serious crimes imaginable.

“And unless and until that changes, I will continue to support the judgment of the courts unless that judgment is successfully challenged through evidence, not through campaigning.”