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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Kim Pilling

Lucy Letby’s parents asked hospital bosses for urgent meeting, inquiry told

Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole life orders after being convicted of murder and attempted murder (Cheshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

The parents of Lucy Letby asked hospital bosses for an urgent meeting over their “intolerable anguish” after police began investigating the serial killer nurse, a public inquiry has heard.

John and Susan Letby wrote to the Countess of Chester Hospital’s then board chairman Sir Duncan Nichol two months after Cheshire Constabulary was brought in to probe the increased number of baby deaths on the neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016.

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