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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Kim Pilling

Letby not referred to regulator by bosses over ‘lack of evidence’, inquiry hears

Child serial killer Lucy Letby (Cheshire Constabulary/PA) - (PA Media)

Lucy Letby was not referred to the nursing regulator after concerns about her were raised to hospital bosses because there was a “lack of evidence” she may be killing babies, a public inquiry has heard.

Consultant paediatricians on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital flagged up their increasing worries over Letby in late June 2016 following the deaths of two triplet boys.

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