Judges set court date for Liam Fee killer

A SENIOR judge has set a date for the mother of infant Liam Fee to appeal against her murder conviction.

Lawyers acting for Rachel Fee, 31, will address the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh on January 31.

Lord Turnbull took the decision to fix the hearing for next month following a short hearing at the court yesterday.

Judge Lord Burns jailed Fee for 23 and a half years for murdering her two-year-old son following proceedings at the High Court in Edinburgh in July 2016. Her civil partner Nyomi, 24, was jailed for 24 years for her role in taking Liam’s life.

Now, lawyers acting for Fee are to argue Lord Burns made mistakes when addressing jurors about the law. They say the errors are so serious as to make Fee’s conviction unsafe.

During a trial earlier this year, the High Court heard how the pair spent two years torturing the tot before finally killing him at their Fife home in March 2014.

The duo left the child with injuries similar to those of car crash victims.

It is claimed jurors considering their verdict against Fee may have felt the evidence presented to them meant it was more appropriate to return a guilty verdict to culpable homicide than murder.