To move very quickly. Dan roan, bbc news, sydney. This programme continues on bbc one. After a trial lasting 10 months, a jury decided nurse lucy letby deliberately injected seven babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin. Her victims included twins and two boys in a set of identical triplets, who she murdered within 2a hours of each other. Consultants who told Hospital Managers they had concerns about letby were forced to apologise to herfor raising suspicions. Well ask why bosses at the countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked, failed to investigate the deaths for so long. There is only one Serial Killer of babies. 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. And why does a Health Professional trained to save lives become a Serial Killer . The person who kills within a Healthcare Setting has already developed the desire to kill,
to move very quickly. dan roan, bbc news, sydney. this programme continues on bbc one. after a trial lasting 10 months, a jury decided nurse lucy letby deliberately injected seven babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin. her victims included twins and two boys in a set of identical triplets, who she murdered within 2a hours of each other. consultants who told hospital managers they had concerns about letby were forced to apologise
of murdering their patients. and as with lucy letby, in each case, the authorities were asked, why weren t they stopped sooner? dr shipman targeted those who trusted him, elderly, vulnerable patients, and injected them with morphine. the bodies of nine of his victims were exhumed as part of the police investigation. he was jailed in 2000, and killed himself in prison four years later. she has been found with a quantity, that much, insulin in her. elderly patients were also the target of colin norris, a young nurse who went rogue. in 2008, he was found guilty of murdering four, and trying to kill a fifth. but the closest comparison to letby is perhaps beverley allitt also a nurse in her 20s, also working on a children s ward,
the care of thousands of babies at two hospitals where letby had worked. tonight we ll ask why bosses at the countess of chester hospital failed to investigate the suspicious deaths of so many babies, despite consultants repeatedly trying to blow the whistle about the numbers dying on letby s watch. the hospital didn t answer that or any other questions today. the answer may come via an inquiry which has been announced by england s health secretary. here s kate. did you have any concerns that there was a did you have any concerns that there was a rise did you have any concerns that there was a rise in did you have any concerns that there was a rise in the mortality rate? yes yes. seven babies murdered in a neonatal unit, a further six the subject of murder attempts. the verdicts today make lucy letby the most prolific child killer in modern british history. the nurse had been trusted to care for the largely premature and vulnerable infants at the countess of chester hospital.