Child killer Lucy Letby was a 'broken person' but now has a 'new hope', her barrister has said as he revealed they are speaking once every one to two weeks.
Mark McDonald said in an interview how Letby's parents contacted almost a year ago and requested he take over from her previous lawyer and free her from prison.
A week later he met the killer, who is serving 15 whole-life orders after murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.
Mr McDonald said he is submitting 'new evidence' to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, and has also spent the past year working to boost public criticism of her convictions.
He gathered a panel of 14 neonatal and paediatric experts, shared the babies' medical notes with them, and held a press conference casting doubt on the prosecution's case.
