Households of infants murdered by nurse Lucy Letby vow to proceed their seek for solutions

The households of infants murdered by Lucy Letby have vowed to proceed their seek for solutions as questions swirled round what extra might have been achieved to cease her killing spree.

The 33-year-old neonatal nurse was convicted of the murder of seven babies and the tried homicide of six extra on the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

The households of her victims say they’ve been left “heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb” by her actions.

Following her conviction at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, two of the households mentioned via a lawyer that it’s “not the end of our search for answers”.

Yvonne Agnew, head of Slater and Gordon’s Cardiff medical negligence division, mentioned: “While today [Friday] marks the conclusion of this trial, it is not the end of our search for answers and our fight for justice for our clients.

“We are decided that classes are learnt by the Countess of Chester Hospital, the NHS and the broader medical career in order that no infants or mother and father are put in hurt’s approach like this once more.”

It comes as police introduced they’re reviewing the care of 4,000 babies who had been admitted to the Countess of Chester – and likewise Liverpool Women’s Hospital the place Letby had two work placements – way back to 2012.

The Chester hospital has come beneath scrutiny over when it referred to as in police and whether or not extra might have been achieved to cease Letby.

An independent inquiry into its dealing with of the case has been introduced by the Department of Health and the well being ombudsman has additionally mentioned the NHS should enhance its working tradition when workers elevate “warnings of real evil”.

There had been 13 deaths on the neonatal unit the place she labored over a one-year interval, which is 5 occasions the same old price, and the nurse was on responsibility for all of them.

She might have been stopped as early as June 2015 when executives held a gathering the place it was agreed an exterior investigation into the deaths can be held however it by no means was.

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In October that 12 months, after seven infants had died, a hyperlink was made between all of the deadly collapses and Lucy Letby, whom prosecutors described as a “constant malevolent presence” within the care of the infants.

Despite this the hyperlink was believed to be co-incidental.

A retired physician who labored on the hospital says questions have to be requested about whether or not the Letby might have been stopped earlier.

Dr John Gibbs, a retired advisor paediatrician, additionally questioned why managers took 11 months to contain police when suspicions had been raised.

Asked if the killer nurse might have been stopped earlier, Dr Gibbs instructed Sky News: “I think that needs to be looked into.

“Partly, might we have now stopped Lucy Letby earlier? And I believe a few of the mother and father of the infants in direction of the top will probably be asking that.

“But then, once we have realised, we had great concerns about Lucy Letby, and she was removed from the neonatal unit, why did it take 11 months for the police to then be called in?

“That is one thing that, we as paediatricians have to have a look at, but additionally the managers must reply, why it took so lengthy for the police to come back in.”

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She was nonetheless working on the belief when she was arrested at her semi-detached dwelling in Westbourne Road, Chester, at 6am on 3 July 2018.

Letby will probably be sentenced on Monday and has already indicated by way of her legal professionals she doesn’t want to attend.