Lucy Letby sentence: Doctors who flagged concerns over killer nurse ‘were ordered to apologise’ as Letby found guilty

Senior doctors who had raised concerns about Lucy Letby were reportedly ordered to apologize to her by a boss at the hospital where she murdered seven babies.

Letby colleagues warned for months that the nurse was the only paramedic present when several premature babies suddenly collapsed and died at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

But in January 2017 they were told to apologize after two checks found no wrongdoing against them, The Guardian reports.

According to one of the reviews, Tony Chambers, the hospital’s chief executive at the time, said he spoke to Letby and her father for hours and believed she was innocent.

Mr Chambers then ordered the advisers to apologize to Letby and said she would resume work on the unit shortly, the newspaper said. However, she did not return to the neonatal unit and four months later a police investigation began.

The reasons why Letby, a neonatal nurse, committed the murders may never be fully understood, although prosecutors and other experts told jurors several possible motives during their trial.

Here, The Independent Take a look at some of the key theories debated in court:

Murderous nurse Lucy Letby joins a murky list of medical professionals who have used their position to harm the vulnerable patients they are meant to care for.

Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six other children, one of them twice, in a hospital neonatal unit.

Prosecutors said Letby, 33, was a “calculated opportunist” who exploited the vulnerability of preterm and sick infants to cover up her actions.

In 2015 and 2016, the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit saw a significant increase in the number of babies who suffered severe and unexpected collapse.

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A doctor who helped capture murderous nurse Lucy Letby has described a night that will be “in his nightmares” and initially made him suspicious of the murderous nurse.

dr Ravi Jayaram, consultant pediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital, claims he watched Letby “stand over” a sick baby without sounding the alarm or helping.

“As I walked to the incubator I could see on the monitors that the oxygen saturation was dropping to a level where the alarm would normally have gone off and the nurse called for help,” he told ITV.

“She just stood there.”

The 33-year-old intentionally injected air or poisoned infants with insulin between June 2015 and 2016. Other babies who had been born prematurely or had special vulnerable needs were harmed by excess milk intake, while one was physically assaulted. She was also convicted of the attempted murder of six other babies.

Samantha Dixon, Labor MP for Chester, said she had written to Health Secretary Steve Barclay demanding a full, independent and public inquiry once Lucy Letby was found guilty.

She welcomed the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that it had ordered an independent investigation, but expressed concerns that it was not a statutory investigation.

“I have some concerns about the risks of a non-statutory inquiry as people are not required to be present and testify,” she told BBC Breakfast.

“So I answered him and asked him why he came to this decision as there are these risks and we need full answers.”

She added: “A non-statutory investigation relies almost entirely on the good will of the witnesses to be present. You are not obligated to participate, you will not be obligated to participate.”

dr Bill Kirkup, who led the investigation into poor care in maternity wards in Morecambe Bay and East Kent, said there were “common features” between the Lucy Letby case and the investigations he conducted into poor care in maternity wards at other hospitals.

He told BBC Breakfast: “I think there are a number of common features underlying a lot of these different investigations that jibe with what I’ve heard about what happened at the Countess of Chester Hospital, particularly the difficulty people have to convince them.” There is a real issue here that needs to be investigated and properly and independently considered.

“And especially the chasm that can open up between doctors who report problems and managers who don’t necessarily want to hear.”

He added: “Yesterday was the first time I heard the Trust use the phrase ‘reputational protection’ in this context and it really annoys me as that has always been a feature of everything I do have.” the last 12 years or so.

“The first reaction of management people who control organizations in these circumstances is to protect reputation – the reputation of the organization, their own reputation.”

“And if that’s more important than being open and honest about what’s going on, that’s tragic. We have to be able to stop that.”

A note was found under Nurse Lucy Letby’s bed with medication given to a young boy as he fought back from death.

Records of the rescue medication administered to the infant were written on a paper towel during his 30-minute CPR in the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.

Letby, 33, gave the little one, Child M, respiratory breaths after she responded to his cot monitor’s alarm.

The families of their victims said they were “heartbroken, devastated, angry and calloused” by their actions.