tomorrow. the other staff were very traumatised by all of this. they were traumatised by all of this. they were crumbling before your eyes almost, were crumbling before your eyes almost, and she was quite happy and confident almost, and she was quite happy and confident to come into work. lucy letb was confident to come into work. lucy letby was eventually confident to come into work. ii i,.t} letby was eventually moved to a clerical role. the doctors kept trying to get managers to investigate suspicious deaths, and her connection to them. that we can now reveal that even though consultants here repeatedly made loud warnings to senior management, they say they were ignored, and ultimately told that if they didn t stop raising questions about the nurse, there would be consequences. in the dock to say that even after lucy letby came off duty on the neonatal unit, executives tried to draw a line under the case, and it was only a year after she stopped working as a nurse that the p
one of them said, every time i m, you know, this is happening to me, that i m being called in for these catastrophic events which were unexpected and unexplained, lucy letby is there, and then somebody else said, yes, ifound that. and then someone else had the same response. and they all realised that the common factor for each of them was letby s presence on the unit. injune 2016, two babies died on consecutive days. 13 children had now died. lucy letby was on shift for all of them. the day after the second death, the nurse was due back on the unit. paediatrician steve brearey rang the duty manager asking for letby to be replaced. the manager refused. i challenged her. i said, well, are you saying that you re making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians? and she said, yes.
in the last year. though the paediatricians feared being reported to the regulator, they kept going, pressurising executives to call the police, something the trust did eventually in 2017. the reputation of the organisation and protecting that reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised. they were dragged kicking and screaming, the executive team, to call in the police. that would certainly be the conclusion that i would reach. at the time letby was arrested in july 2018, she was still working at the trust. no disciplinary action had been taken against her. the strong opinion was that there would be nothing found. there was a brief overlap of three or four days between myself and the outgoing medical director, and his parting words to me, to my surprise, were, you need to refer the paediatricians to the gmc.
substances like air, milk or medication like insulin would become lethal. she perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death. the nurse even wrote this sympathy card to the parents of one baby and searched for many of the other families on facebook. not a single thing that i ve ever seen or witnessed of lucy would let me for a moment believe that she was capable of the things she was being accused of. dawn is one of lucy letby s childhood friends and has watched events unfold with disbelief. she is the kindest person that i ve ever known. she would only ever want to help people. you seem utterly unshakeable on this, but isn t it possible that she s fooled you all? unless lucy turned around and said,