Mr Chambers, who was chief executive of the Countess of Chester NHS Trust at the time the killer struck, said in a blog post that he was urged to take another role in London as police probed the deaths.
Lucy Letby was found guilty of seven counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder during her time as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016
Tony Chambers resigned from his £160,000-a-year position at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire just two months after Lucy Letby was held for murder and attempting to murder babies.
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