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

Parents found baby under Lucy Letby’s care covered in faeces

A person with a TV camera outside the hospital
The Countess of Chester hospital. The parents contrasted the ‘meticulous attention to detail’ at Alder Hey hospital with their experience at the Countess. Photograph: Reuters

The parents of an extremely vulnerable newborn girl have said they were disgusted to find her “covered in her own faeces” while under the care of the nurse Lucy Letby.

The inquiry into the murder of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital heard that one child had been fitted with a stoma as well as a catheter, known as a Broviac line, after her birth in October 2015.

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