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UK begins inquiry into how nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies

Justice Kathryn Thirlwall, head of the independent inquiry, arrives at Liverpool Town Hall on September 9, 2024 [Peter Byrne/Pool/AFP]

A public inquiry has started in the United Kingdom into how a nurse murdered seven newborns at the hospital she worked at and why the killings went unnoticed for months.

The government-ordered proceedings into the case of 34-year-old former nurse Lucy Letby, found guilty of murdering the infants in her care at Chester’s Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England from 2015-2016, began on Tuesday in Liverpool Town Hall.

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