The parents of one of Lucy Letby’s young victims thought she was just an “odd loner” before the horrific truth came out that she had murdered their baby girl.
The vile nurse injected air into Child I, and is now locked up for life after being convicted of seven murders and seven attempted murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
During the Thirlwall Inquiry into the chilling crimes this week the girl’s mother spoke out, describing Letby as a strange presence and expressing shock at how much she had been involved in her daughter’s care.
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“Her face was always on the babies’ fundraising pictures,” the mum revealed in her statement at the Liverpool inquiry. “I remember thinking she was a bit quiet and a bit odd. She always seemed a bit of a loner. We saw her around on the odd occasion but we didn’t have much to do with her.”
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The mother expressed her utter disbelief upon reviewing her daughter’s medical records, noticing Letby’s pervasive involvement. “She is all over her notes,” she stated. “I have noticed a lot of the ‘care’ was when I wasn’t present,” reports the Mirror.
Furthermore, she accused hospital chiefs of earning “huge salaries” while they “protected and facilitated” the murderous nurse by “trying to create their own narrative that Lucy Letby was a victim of bullying”.
The grieving mother, whose identity is protected for legal reasons, insisted that the medical staff should have intervened sooner. “I believe the doctors and nursing staff should have acted earlier,” she told the inquiry.
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She elaborated: “Those in positions of authority at the hospital should have listened to them instead of trying to create their own narrative that Lucy Letby was a victim of bullying and harassment. Someone should have investigated the concerns fully at the time.
“This is what management are paid so handsomely to do. They shouldn’t have been concentrating on saving their own skins and jobs and reputations. Babies died because someone in an office being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds didn’t want the hospital to look bad if they shut the neonatal unit down while they investigated why so many babies were deteriorating when they should have been thriving.”
The mother, mourning the loss, stated Child I would have turned nine this year, adding that no parent “should ever have to go through what we have been and continue to go through each day”.
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Lucy Letby, 34, is serving 15 whole life orders for the murder of seven infants and the attempted murder of another seven in the neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.
The inquiry into this tragic series of events at the hospital, overseen by Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall, started earlier at Liverpool Town Hall to scrutinise the happenings and how NHS management handled the situation during the time of the deaths.
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