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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,
Again, after death, before the child was buried. and all of these memories, memories that should have been precious moments have been tainted by the presence of lucy letby. so really, a lot of that was very difficult to hear. we talked about the impact on surviving siblings, babies who had survived those murder attempts. and on the families as well and the impact it had on marriages, mental health, really the long running ordeal which is hard for any who haven t been in that situation to situation to understand, to imagine. we gotjust the smallest insight into that in court this morning before that sentence was passed. and court this morning before that sentence was passed. and there s no real closure sentence was passed. and there s no real closure for sentence was passed. and there s no real closure for many sentence was passed. and there s no real closure for many of sentence was passed. and there s no real closure for many of the - real closure for many of the families, who
But then to find out that a nurse who was so central to their care had murdered them. in fact, some of those victim impact statements today reflected on those particular moments. how close the woman who killed their children was to their final moments. the mother of baby c talked about the fact that she wears the handprints and footprints of baby c around her neck, and knowing lucy letby was the one who took those hand and footprints from her child after the baby had died. another parent talked about the fact that lucy letby was the one who bathed and dressed her child again, after death, before the child was buried. and all of these memories, memories that should have been precious moments, have been tainted by the presence of lucy letby. so really, a lot of that was very difficult to hear. we talked about the impact on surviving siblings, on babies who d survived those murder attempts. and on the families as well and the impact it had on marriages, mental health, really
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.