When James Titcombe heard that Lucy Letby had been able to continue harming babies despite doctors sounding alarm bells, he felt a terrible sense of deja vu.
To the father of a nine-day-old boy who died avoidably due to failings in the NHS, the culture of denial, the failure to properly investigate patient harm and crackdowns on whistleblowers at the Countess of Chester hospital that ultimately left Letby free to kill were sadly “only too familiar”.