Lucy Letby speculation causing families enormous stress, inquiry chair says

Lady Justice Thirlwall, the inquiry chair, at Liverpool town hall. Photograph: Peter Byrne/Reuters

Comments on the validity of Lucy Letby’s convictions have created a “noise that caused an enormous amount of stress” for the parents of the victims, a judge warned on the opening day of a public inquiry.

Letby, 34, was sentenced to 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others.