hello. my name s 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 children s 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 don t deserve to live. i killed them on purpose because i m
concerns for months about letby but that senior managers ignored them and protected lucy letby. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has this exclusive report. this is the story of an nhs trust that didn t properly investigate why 13 babies died in a one year period. instead, it turned against the very people who wanted the police to examine the deaths. there is only one serial killer of babies that has 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. susan gilbeyjoined the countess of chester nhs trust a month after lucy letby was arrested. within two months, she was made chief executive, a post she held until last december. through documents and speaking to staff, she learned what the trust knew about the serial killer. the first three babies died injune 2015. the executive team held a meeting at which it was ag
Joining the Countess of Chester should have been a kind of homecoming for Dr Susan Gilby. She gave birth to the youngest of her three children at the hospital, and spent part of her training there.
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