Lawyers representing the families of two of Lucy Letby’s victims have said the Government-ordered independent inquiry is ‘inadequate’.
Lawyers representing families of some of the babies attacked by serial killer Lucy Letby have said that a non-statutory public inquiry into her killing spree is “inadequate”.
“The inquiry announced by the Department of Health is inadequate,” said Richard Scorer, head of abuse law and public inquiries, and Yvonne Agnew, head of the firm’s Cardiff clinical negligence department, in a joint statement. “So I have replied to him and asked him why he has come to that decision, given that there are these risks and that we need full answers.”
Slater and Gordon also called for the Government’s inquiry to investigate how the NHS’s duty of candour scheme had “failed”. “We do not believe that ‘duty of candour’ is an adequate substitute for a proper mandatory reporting regime, and any inquiry needs to examine this issue properly as failings here could be replicated elsewhere in the NHS.”
But it is expected they will not see Letby when she is sentenced on Monday after the serial killer indicated she will not take part in the hearing at Manchester Crown Court.
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