Hello. My names muted i from cheshire police. Can we step in two seconds . Oh, yes. This is the moment when the net closed in. Yep, not a problem. In tears, lucy letby is brought out of her house under arrest and taken away. It seemed unbelievable a neonatal nurse, a protector of the most vulnerable members of society. Lucy letby had worked at the countess of chester Childrens Hospital since 2012. In early 2015, she qualified to work in the neonatal high dependency and intensive care units. Onjune 8 that year, she committed her first murder. For the next 12 months, the attacks continued. Injune 2016, two babies died in two days. 0n the third day, another baby collapsed. Letby was taken off clinical duties. Two years later, letby was arrested for the first time. Police found medical records under her bed and hand scrawled notes. I am a horrible, evil person, one says. I am evil. I did this, says another. I dont deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because im not good enough to care
Lucy letby murdered seven babies, wrote in a now deleted blog about being persuaded to run a london trust by a senior nhs england boss. tony chambers resigned from the countess of chester nhs trust in september 2018. he has been accused of ignoring concerns raised by doctors who worked with letby. the property website zoopla says the number of houses sold in the uk this year is on track to be the lowest in more than a decade. around one million sales are set to be completed, down almost a fifth from last year. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, has arrived in beijing for the first visit to china by a senior minister in more than five years. the visit comes as mps on the foreign affairs committee accuse the uk government of having no clear policy towards the country because there was too much secrecy. here s our china corresspondent, stephen mcdonell. the governments of britain and china really want these talks to go ahead.
Were sent to senior managers but we know that the deaths were not being recorded properly, so they weren t picked up by nhs systems. at one point, the doctors who are raising concerns had to apologise to letby because she raised a grievance. the countess of chester nhs trust says that it countess of chester nhs trust says thatitis countess of chester nhs trust says that it is deeply saddened and appalled by it letby s primes. it says that staff are devastated by what happened and that changes have already been made since lucy letby worked here. fine already been made since lucy letby worked here- worked here. one of the big questions worked here. one of the big questions here. worked here. one of the big questions here. there - worked here. one of the big questions here. there are l worked here. one of the big| questions here. there are so worked here. one of the big - questions here. there are so many, is this issue of the whistle blowers, how many protections they had. what rol
Of the hospital where lucy letby worked, tony chambers, offering support to whistleblowers. the video was recorded just a year before the nurse murdered herfirst victim. we have heard from a number of consultants at the hospital who say their warnings were ignored, while the trust s attitide to whistleblowers has caused concern in this case. i ve got two pledges to make. the first is as a chief exec, i pledge to support a culture where the front line staff are supported in raising concerns. and more importantly, me listening to them when they do. the second pledge is to go back to my grassroots and spend the day as a health care assistant in one of our busy care of the elderly wards. dr minh alexander is a retired consultant psychiatrist and nhs whistleblower. she s been telling us about the potential obstacles whistleblowers currently face.
The former chairman of the countess of chester nhs trust, where lucy letby worked, says he feels the board was misled over what was happening at the trust. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan told me a bit more about sir duncan nichol s statement. for a year, the countess of chester hospital, between the summer of 2015 and the summer of 2016, when 13 babies died in unexplained circumstances, and we now know that the pediatricians at the unit, the neonatal unit, were raising concerns about what was happening, the board were not made aware of this problem, despite the number of deaths being significantly higher than they usually were. but in the summer of 2016, they did become aware of it. and one of the things they decided to do at that point was to launch a series of external independent investigations to try and understand why these babies were dying. and none of these investigations were ever properly commissioned or properly completed. and they never got to the bottom