Thirlwall Inquiry: Some Lucy Letby Baby Deaths Were Preventable
Lady Justice Thirlwall said earlier safeguarding action could have saved some newborns and prevented attacks as she condemned management failures.
- On Monday, engineering expert Helen Shannon and bioengineering professor Geoff Chase withdrew from Lucy Letby's defence team, citing concerns over legal arguments in her case at the Countess of Chester hospital.
- In a letter to The Criminal Cases Review Commission , the pair warned that new arguments by Letby's team were not 'scientifically credible' and posed 'placing the long-term interests of Ms Letby at serious, unnecessary and unacceptable risk.'
- Mark McDonald, Letby's lawyer, said he 'fundamentally' disagreed the withdrawal undermined the case, noting that critics lack knowledge of evidence submitted to the CCRC for independent review.
- Richard Scorer, representing three victims' families, told Times Radio on Tuesday that the hospital 'very badly let down' parents, adding that institutional culpability is now inevitable.
- The Thirlwall Inquiry, led by Lady Justice Thirlwall, publishes its findings this afternoon, seeking answers for families nearly 25 years after nurse Beverley Allitt committed similar crimes on a children's ward in Grantham.
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Some babies killed by British nurse Lucy Letby could have been saved, according to a commission that investigated the deaths. The damning report states that hospital executives "completely failed at all levels" in protecting the children. The 36-year-old Letby was convicted in 2023 of the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of seven others. She worked in the neonatology department of the Countess of Chester Hospital, near Liverpool, in 2…
Several deaths of newborns for whom British nurse Lucy Letby was convicted could have been avoided if the safety rules had been applied, according to the findings of a public inquiry into this case, which continues to raise questions.
Questions swirl over child killer Lucy Letby’s case as UK inquiry reveals major hospital failings
By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A public inquiry into how the crimes of a British nurse convicted of murdering multiple babies went undetected for so long has uncovered a litany of failings at the UK hospital where she worked and concluded that some babies would have been saved had managers acted sooner. The
Yvette Cooper delivers statement to MPs following Lucy Letby inquiry
The Health Secretary has apologised for the failures set out in the inquiry triggered by Lucy Letby's crimes.Speaking in the Commons, Yvette Cooper said she was "profoundly sorry" for the outcome of the report, which set out that three of the murdered babies could have been saved.Addressing MPs, Ms Cooper said: "The safety and the safeguarding and well-being of babies must never again be treated as a side issue. And as I reflect on some of the s…
Doctor 'boyfriend' of Lucy Letby blurred boundaries, inquiry finds
The doctor ‘boyfriend’ of Lucy Letby blurred boundaries and put his desire to help her above his duties to his patients, an inquiry has found. Consultant paediatrician Dr Mark Deakin, 53, who died earlier this year, exchanged more than 1,300 Facebook messages with his Countess of Chester Hospital colleague Letby between June and September 2016, […]
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