The Latest Breaking News from the Countess of Chester Hospital

The recent conviction of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven infants and attempted to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-2016, has raised fundamental questions about how something like this could have happened – and why it took so long to stop…

Campaign organiser criticised medical evidence presented to the jury

Britain’s worst child killer was absent from the dock at Manchester Crown Court as she was given a whole-life term

She was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working in the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.

The deaths in June 2016 were the ‘tipping point’ for consultants who suspected Letby was to blame.

Letby, who has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, took advantage of her position to kill in plain sight. But despite a 10-month trial, we’re no closer to understanding the motive behind her horrifying crimes

Karen Rees said she did not have enough information to justify removing the killer nurse from the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.

Constulants tried to raise the alarm with hospital managers in 2015, but police were not contacted unil 2017

Letby had denied murdering seven babies and trying to murder 10 others during course of her work on neonatal unit at Countess of Chester Hospital