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

‘Trust me, I’m a nurse’: Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped as months of murder went by?

Lucy Letby, Britain’s worst child serial killer, who faces spending the rest of her life in jail.
Lucy Letby, Britain’s worst child serial killer, who faces spending the rest of her life in jail. Composite: Cheshire Constabulary/Observer Design

In a discreet corner of a cafe in Chester, Dr Stephen Brearey recalls the exact moment he first connected Lucy Letby to a series of unusual baby deaths on the neonatal unit where they worked.

It was in a meeting with the hospital’s head of nursing and two other colleagues on Thursday, 2 July 2015. “It can’t be Lucy. Not nice Lucy,” he told them.

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