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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Kim Pilling

Hospital boss denies he could have prevented two triplet boys’ murders by Letby

Nurse Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others (Cheshire Constabulary/PA) - (PA Media)

A retired hospital chief has denied he could have prevented the murders of two triplet boys by nurse Lucy Letby, a public inquiry has heard.

Letby injected air into the newborns on successive days at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in June 2016 as part of a series of attacks from a year earlier in which she murdered seven infants and attempted to murder seven more.

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