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Earlier we spoke to Antoinette Sandbach, the former MP for Eddisbury, who in 2009, well before Lucy Letby worked there, herself suffered the loss of a baby at the Countess of Chester hospital. ....
We excluded all of those things until we got down to one point, which was lucy letby. i want her to be locked up and i never want her to come out again, because what she s done has changed the course of our life for ever. i think she s a hateful human being. i think she s taken everything from us absolutely everything. jurors in the murder trial of hereford nurse lucy letby have retired to considered their verdict. ms letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill ten others. you can feel the tension every day here. no one knows if this will be the day when the jury returns its verdict. the trial has been running for ten months. it s five and a half weeks since the jury was sent out. ....
The inaction of the management at the Countess of Chester Hospital amounts to a major scandal, revealing a culture that was keener on protecting its corporate reputation than the safety of patients, writes Leo McKinstry. ....
As a result of this trial. either we have, you know, someone who s causing deliberate harm on the neonatal unit, and concerns were raised, and they were not followed up on by. ..by senior management, or we have one, a case where the mortality rate at the neonatal unit was far higher than it should have been, unacceptably high, and not enough was done to mitigate against that. from the summer of 2016, lucy letby was moved to administrative duties. but there was still no formal investigation into why so many babies had died or come close to death. the internal documents we ve ....