Three people who held senior roles at Lucy Letby’s hospital have been arrested under the suspicion of gross negligent manslaughter.
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The staff members of the Countess of Chester Hospital worked there in 2015 and 2016 and they are now on bail, Cheshire Constabulary has confirmed.
Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes said that the gross negligent manslaughter will focus on the “action or inaction of individuals.”
In October 2023 an investigation started looking into corporate manslaughter at the hospital.
The investigation will determine whether any “criminality has taken place concerning the response to the increased levels of fatalities”.
Hughes insisted it is “important to note” this latest development “does not impact on the convictions of Lucy Letby for multiple offences of murder and attempted murder”.
He added, “Both the corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter elements of the investigation are continuing and there are no set timescales for these.
“Our investigation into the deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the neo-natal units of both the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital between the period of 2012 to 2016 is also ongoing.”
Medical experts have said that Letby did not murder the babies and her legal team have said her conviction has been branded “one of the major injustices of modern times.”
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) who investigates miscarriages of justice will review Letby’s case as her legal team have made an application.
Letby is serving a 15 while life order after being convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven babies and attempted to murder seven more, with two attempts on a victim between June 2015 and June 2016.
Last October the former Tory MP Sir David Davies has spent three months reviewing the evidence on the convicted murdered Lucy Letby.
The former Shadow Home Secretary said “judging on the evidence” he believes there is a very high chance that Letby is innocent.
Also a panel of international experts have published a report which proves the former nurse killed no babies.
The panel of 14 medical experts have all said Letby killed no babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
The “fresh” report claims the prosecutor’s misled jurors and misrepresented the insulin tests.
Six medical experts, including a professor of science and endocrinologist and a forensic toxicologist, paediatric specialists have given their doubt over the validity of the prosecutor’s evidence that insulin was used to kill the babies.
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