Who is Lucy Letby? British nurse convicted of killing 7 babies, inquiry finds hospital failures cost lives

A public inquiry has found that more babies could have been saved from nurse Lucy Letby if hospital managers had acted sooner on concerns about a rise in unexplained deaths and collapses on a neonatal unit in northern England.The finding came on Tuesday from the Thirlwall Inquiry, which examined how Letby's offending went undetected at the Countess of Chester Hospital and how the hospital responded to concerns about her.Who is Lucy Letby?Letby was born in Hereford, central England, and trained as a nurse at the University of Chester. After qualifying, she began working in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.She is serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder eight others while working at the hospital between 2015 and 2016.What the inquiry foundInquiry chair Kathryn Thirlwall described the hospital's failure to protect babies a “complete failure”. She concluded that some of the deaths could have been prevented had concerns about Letby been acted on earlier.The inquiry was not tasked with deciding whether Letby was guilty. Its focus was on how the hospital responded as doctors became increasingly concerned ...