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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

‘I’m not a hero, I was just doing my job’, says consultant who helped catch killer nurse Lucy Letby

A neonatal doctor who helped catch Britain’s most prolific child killer Lucy Letby has said he is “not a hero, I was just doing my job”.

Letby, 33, was on Monday jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more, while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.

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