Letby, 34, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others
The public inquiry into the events surrounding the crimes of child serial killer nurse Lucy Letby will begin today. Chaired by Lady Justice Thirlwall, the investigation at Liverpool Town Hall is to examine how Letby was able to attack babies on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit in 2015 and 2016 and how its bosses handled concerns about her.
Firstly, the experiences of the parents of the babies who featured on the criminal indictment that Letby faced. Secondly, the conduct of those working at the Countess of Chester and how Letby was able repeatedly to kill and harm babies.
She referred to the case of another child killer nurse, Beverley Allitt, who murdered four infants and caused grievous bodily harm or attempted to murder a total of nine other children in Lincolnshire in 1991. She said: “Everyone was determined that it would not happen again. It has happened again. This is utterly unacceptable.”
Her new lawyer, Mark McDonald, has claimed that new medical evidence and expert opinion had revealed “flaws” in the prosecution case and that he plans to apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to ask it to return the case to the Court of Appeal for consideration. In recent months a number of doctors, scientists and statisticians have publicly challenged how the evidence was presented to jurors.
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