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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Lucy Letby case ‘only too familiar’, says father bereaved in Morecambe Bay maternity scandal

James Titcombe
James Titcombe with the Morecambe Bay investigation report when the findings were announced. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

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”.

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