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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kim Pilling

Lucy Letby inquiry: Hospital chief thought nurse may be innocent after arrest

The former chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital was worried about a “wrongful conviction” after the arrest of Lucy Letby, a public inquiry has heard.

Tony Chambers was said to have had the concerns after Letby’s initial detention by Cheshire Constabulary in July 2018, over a string of unexplained and unexpected collapses of babies on the neonatal unit.

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