Families of the fourteen babies gave heartbreaking evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry in Liverpool this week
gave heartbreaking evidence to a public inquiry describing their fight to find out the truth about how their children died.
None of the babies or their families can be named due to a lifelong anonymity order made by the courts during Letby’s criminal trials. Chair of the independent inquiry Senior appeal court judge Kate Thirlwall speaks at the Liverpool Town Hall, on September 9, 2024 “I cannot understand this at all from the perspective of a medic or, in fact, any human level whatsoever.
“I feel we were treated extremely disrespectfully and I think it has added hugely to our distress at what was already a distressing time.”Every hospital in England with a neonatal unit has been asked as part of the inquiry whether they have considered installing CCTV in the wake of Letby’s killing spree..
It led to a meeting with the treating consultant paediatrician who told her that as a department they felt the most likely diagnosis was an “overwhelming infection”.She said: “I said, ‘well you explain this to me, it doesn’t make sense’. She was getting better, not worse. She couldn’t explain. A general view of the Women and Children’s Building at the Countess of Chester Hospital on August 18, 2023 in Chester.
She said: “If there was an assessment done, or if counselling was mandatory, whoever was talking to these staff might have seen some red flags. In August 2015, Letby assaulted Child E, which caused bleeding, and also injected air into his bloodstream. Nearly 24 hours later she poisoned Child F with insulin.
She said: “It took us through our children’s lives essentially hour by hour, and to find out that Child E had that significant bleed to the point of it being very, very unusual, and for no post-mortem to be warranted from that, made me question why.Lucy Letby, 34, was convicted by a jury of murdering seven babies while working between 2015 and 2016
Her only previous contact from the hospital, she said, was when they rang twice to ask for the return of a breast pump, which she used at her son’s funeral, when she had in fact already returned it. “I blamed myself for a lot of things that happened in that time. I don’t think it should have been held back. To do that, I think it’s quite hideous to be honest.”The mother of Child G, who Letby attempted to murder twice, said the nurse had “ruined our lives”.
“Our daughter needs 24-hour care because of Letby. We don’t know how long she will live. It affects every single minute of all our days.”“For years we thought our daughter had suffered from neonatal sepsis and aspirated her vomit, causing her brain damage and making the way she is now. “I feel that the Countess of Chester have covered up what happened to our daughter for years. To my mind, the Countess of Chester was more concerned about their reputation than about our daughter’s life.”Bosses at the Countess of Chester Hospital “facilitated a mass murderer” by ignoring concerns raised over Letby, the inquiry was told.
“Babies died because someone in an office being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds didn’t want the hospital to look bad if they shut the neonatal unit down while they investigated why so many babies were deteriorating when they should have been thriving.” “People paid huge salaries allowed this to happen. They made doctors apologise to Lucy Letby when she had murdered babies and continued to harm other babies. The Countess of Chester Hospital was totally blinded by self-preservation that they forgot why they exist – to remain true to the Hippocratic Oath.”
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