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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin & Kim Pilling, PA

Doctor wanted CCTV if Lucy Letby returned to neonatal unit

Senior doctors demanded that CCTV be installed at a hospital unit if Lucy Letby was allowed to return to nursing duties, a court was told.

The nurse's murder trial has heard that senior staff raised concerns over an "accumulating number" of baby deaths. The situation reached a "tipping point" with the deaths of two newborn triplets in June 2016, a consultant told the court.

Dr John Gibbs told jurors that a number of "key safety measures" were introduced after the triplet deaths, including the removal of Letby from the neonatal unit. However a month later he said hospital bosses wanted Letby back on the unit.

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