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
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13 unexplained deaths. in september, the royal college of paediatrics and child health urged the trust to investigate each death individually. that didn t happen. it was only the following may, after continual pressure from staff, that the trust called the police, almost two years after the first unexpected deaths. when she was arrested injuly 2018, lucy letby was still working at the trust. no disciplinary action had been taken against her. there is only one serial killer of babies that s worked in that organisation, and the executive team were not the people who were responsible for the deaths of those babies, but they had some opportunities to get to the bottom of what was happening. the reputation of the organisation, and protecting that reputation,
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
hurricane hilary heads towards the pacific coast of mexico, where it s expected to make landfall on sunday before tracking to california and nevada. forecasters say it will weaken to a tropical storm but still brings the risk of flooding and strong winds. it ll be california s first powerful storm in more than 80 years. the british government has ordered an independent inquiry into how a nurse came to murder seven neonatal babies in her care and tried to kill another six. lucy letby was found guilty after a trial in manchester which lasted ten months. earlier, i spoke to sir robert francis, who in 2013 published a damning report on the failures of another nhs trust the mid staffordshire foundation trust. the reason was that it was
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