A link has been made to the Stepping Hill poisonings
Five basic failures at the Cheshire hospital where Lucy Letby worked had 'fatal consequences', an inquiry has heard. Peter Skelton KC, who represents seven of the families affected by the killer nurse's crimes, spoke of failings at the Countess of Chester hospital which went on for 'two years'.
READ MORE: It was meant to be Salford's trendy new waterside hotspot but the problems just won't go away The barrister said a report into Beverley Allitt - a nurse who killed children at Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, in 1991 - sought to ensure that healthcare staff were prepared to keep their minds open to the possibility of criminal conduct. As well as the Allitt case, Mr Skelton said that in May 2015, just before Letby’s crimes began, nurse Victorino Chua was sentenced for murdering patients at Stepping Hill Hospital, in Stockport.
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