Senior medics resisted letting Lucy Letby back on neonatal unit front line after series of baby deaths
SENIOR medics resisted allowing nurse Lucy Letby back on a neonatal unit’s front line after a series of baby deaths, a court heard yesterday
Dr John Gibbs said there were “repeated attempts by management” to reinstate her over an 11-month period.
He told Manchester crown court that colleagues would only agree to her return “if we had CCTV in every room on the unit” at the Countess of Chester, Cheshire.
Letby, 33, from Hereford, Herts, denies murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of ten from 2015 to 2016.
Dr Gibbs said lead clinician Stephen Brearey had raised the issue of Letby’s presence at baby deaths “several times”.
He added that after two deaths in June 2016, safety measures were introduced — one being that “Nurse Letby was removed”.
The trial continues.