So those doctors sat with you. They poured out their worries. Did they talk about lucy letby . No, no. They talked actually at the time they didnt name anybody. What they talked about was in what they told when they contacted the chief constable, the fact that a nurse had been moved. They didnt actually name the nurse to me because i was at that meeting. I didnt have a lot of time because i had to make a decision on whether we were commencing an investigation or not. So i was focused on actually what does this mean medically . They told me that somebody had been moved and all the events had stopped. But i wasnt really drawn into that that much at that time. My first thoughts were as an sio, that if i had been doing something and Somebody Else had been moved, then i would stop as well. So, you know, i didnt get drawn into much about what that meant. I was more focused at that point on what has actually happened. So thats what our line of investigation was going to focus on initially. So
was also an aberration. sometimes babies had an extremely prompt recovery when it happened unexpectedly, and normally, when they have natural illnesses, the path to recovery will be longer. their temperature will slowly, gradually normalise. the treatment will start to bring everything under control. but their breathing might be laboured. their heart might be not quite beating the proper rhythm, but so they do gradually get better. so sometimes, having brought all of these medical records together, including for some children, evidence from the transport team, which was very important, you could see that there was a pattern of recovery when a child