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

Parents of babies attacked by Letby ‘kept in the dark’, inquiry told

Liverpool town hall.
The Thirlwall inquiry is holding hearings at Liverpool town hall. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Parents of babies attacked by Lucy Letby were not told their children had suffered life-threatening collapses until they were contacted by the police years later, an inquiry has heard.

The parents of one newborn boy said it was “disgusting” they were “kept in the dark” by staff at the Countess of Chester hospital after their son’s health suffered a serious deterioration in June 2016.

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