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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kim Pilling

Letby ‘could have accessed baby death reports after removal from neonatal unit’

Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders (Cheshire Constabulary/PA) - (PA Media)

Lucy Letby could have accessed patient notes and reports on baby deaths after she was taken off a neonatal unit over suspicions she was deliberately harming infants, a public inquiry has heard.

Consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital demanded the removal amid mounting concerns about Letby’s presence at a series of unexpected and unexplained deaths and collapses of infants in 2015 and 2016.

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