“Foolhardy”, “dishonest” and “untruthful”. Just three of the damning adjectives used by a senior judge to describe bosses at the hospital where serial killer Lucy Letby murdered seven babies.
Lady Justice Thirwall’s 800-page report into Countess of Chester Hospital, where Letby committed her crimes in 2015 and 2016, uncovered dysfunctional governance, a gulf between leadership and clinicians and a failure to act on safeguarding.
