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Vikram Verma, who assisted the prosecution during the trial, said: "It was a difficult task for the prosecution to put together all the circumstantial evidence to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt about this conviction."

Speaking at Tuesday's news conference, Mark McDonald - the barrister leading Letby's defence - argued the circumstantial evidence was of "lesser" importance in the case against the nurse compared to the medical evidence.

It’s stretching the circumstantial evidence past the breaking point to suggest that Putin cut a secret deal with Benjamin Netanyahu: You get the Middle East, I get Ukraine.

But it summarized circumstantial evidence, including the argument that the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted “gain-of-function” studies that modified distantly related coronaviruses.

Mobile phone activity, attempts to leave Northern Ireland, and a murder weapon were all put together as circumstantial evidence against the men.