A former colleague of Lucy Letby says he is 'ashamed I failed to protect the babies from harm'.
A doctor has told the public inquiry into Lucy Letby’s crimes that he felt "ashamed" for "failing to protect" babies from the former nurse.
He told the inquiry: "I do deeply regret and I am ashamed that I failed to protect the babies from harm by Lucy Letby, but I do understand that the parents concerned probably now would prefer explanations rather than belated apologies." However, he said there was no suspicion of deliberate harm by July 2015 and he and his colleagues believed she had simply been "unlucky" and on a "bad run".
He said: "I didn’t realise there had been quite so many deaths either, so the full enormity of it started to hit me when I saw that review."Dr Gibbs said that at that point, however, he was also conscious that a nurse had been wrongly accused of killing patients in the 2011 Stepping Hill Hospital case, before"You don’t have to have to be a perpetrator to be unfortunate and be on duty when sad events keep happening," he said.
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