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• The Observer view: only a robust inquiry will hold NHS to account over Lucy Letby murders | Observer editorial

  19-08-2023 20:32
  
  Families need answers from the trust that allowed preventable deaths to happenThe murder of premature babies in their first few weeks of life by a medical professional is impossible to make sense of. But this is the crime of which Lucy Letby, a nurse in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital, was last week convicted in relation to a number of vulnerable infants entrusted to her care. They were utterly dependent on the clinical staff in that unit. But Letby murdered seven babies, a
  
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• Lucy Letby: Police urged to investigate hospital bosses for corporate manslaughter

  19-08-2023 19:16
  
  Key prosecution witness in the trial of the serial killer nurse calls for inquiry into ‘grossly negligent’ executivesHospital bosses who failed to act on concerns about the killer nurse Lucy Letby should be investigated by police for corporate manslaughter, says the prosecution’s key medical expert.Speaking to the Observer, Dr Dewi Evans, whose evidence was central to the case against Letby, said executives were “grossly negligent” for not acting on fears about the
  
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• Lucy Letby inquiry witnesses must be compelled to testify, families say

  19-08-2023 16:28
  
  Relatives of two of nurse’s newborn victims say inquiry ordered by health secretary is inadequateLawyers representing the families of two of Lucy Letby’s victims have branded the government-ordered inquiry “inadequate” and called for it to be given power to compel witnesses to testify under oath.The health secretary, Steve Barclay, has ordered an inquiry into how the neonatal nurse was able to murder seven babies and attempt to kill six others before she was reported to p
  
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