
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.
The case of Lucy Letby comes into focus again with Channel 5 becoming the first broadcaster to air a documentary on the serial killer. The contents of the programme airing on Monday (August 5) and its title, ‘Lucy Letby: Did she really do it?’ are said to have infuriated families of her victims. The programme features interviews with Cheshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as medical experts and will increase publicity on a growing movement calling for a retrial in her case. Former cabinet minister David Davis plans to raise a number of questions in Parliament regarding her conviction when it returns from recess. Pro-Letby campaigners may also use the one-year anniversary of her verdict on August 18, where she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital, as a further opportunity for publicity. Her appeal against her convictions earlier this year failed and the CCRC has confirmed there are currently no plans to open her case.
The final week of the Olympics will see a host of star names in some of the competition’s biggest events, with British hopefuls competing for medals in athletics, cycling, and skateboarding before the Paris Games comes to a close on Sunday (August 11). Monday (August 5) will see Simone Biles compete in her final two events of the competition, the beam and floor, after becoming the most decorated US Olympic gymnast in history. In track and field, keep an eye out for Swedish pole vaulting phenomenon Mondo Duplantis, the current Olympic and world champion who broke his own world record earlier this year and could do so again in the final on Monday evening. Team GB’s Keeley Hodgkinson will be hoping to go one better than her silver at the Tokyo games in the 800m final.
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