Lucy Letby whistleblower says babies would have lived if hospital had acted sooner

Consultant paediatrician Dr Stephen Brearey was told to apologise by hospital executives when he tried to raise concerns about Lucy Letby. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Babies would have survived if hospital executives had acted earlier on concerns about the nurse Lucy Letby, a senior doctor who raised the alarm has said.

In an exclusive Guardian interview, Dr Stephen Brearey accused the Countess of Chester hospital trust of being “negligent” and failing to properly address concerns he and other doctors raised about Letby as she carried out her killings.