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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England editor

Lucy Letby: hospital chiefs ‘refused to call police amid concern of media spotlight’

The exterior of the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital in Chester, England.
A consultant paediatrician urged hospital bosses in an email on 29 June 2016 to contact Cheshire constabulary about a series of ‘unexpected and unexplained’ deaths. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Hospital executives refused to call the police about Lucy Letby because of a “concern that we will be in the media spotlight”, an inquiry has been told.

Murthy Saladi, a consultant paediatrician, urged hospital bosses in an email on 29 June 2016 to contact Cheshire constabulary about a series of “unexpected and unexplained” deaths.

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