The nurse attacked their newborn sons on the same day shift in April 2016.
Parents of two of nurse Lucy Letby’s victims want a public inquiry into her employers at the Countess of Chester Hospital
But the parents were unaware Child L had received unprescribed insulin as hospital medics failed to inform them.They said they were “shocked” to learn two years later from investigating police that their son had experienced low blood sugar readings for more than 48 hours and that a lab result revealed insulin in his system was not naturally occurring.
“I was in floods of tears. I just didn’t know what to think. We were first-time parents, we didn’t know what was going on. had the collapse at 4 o’clock but we didn’t know about . We didn’t know. Full stop. We didn’t know. We only knew when the police came. Her husband said: “If they’d acted on the initial suspicions, then definitely, they could have stopped any more babies being attacked.
Letby’s trial heard that senior consultants who flagged their concerns to management on several occasions were not aware of the insulin lab tests results of Child F and Child L – both ordered by other doctors on the unit.
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