Speculation About Lucy Letby Verdict ‘Distressing’ for Parents, Inquiry Told

A “huge outpouring of comment” over the safety of the convictions against nurse Lucy Letby for killing seven babies has caused “enormous additional distress” to the parents of the infants, a judge told the opening day of the public inquiry into the case. On Tuesday, the hearings of the Thirlwall Inquiry began into how Letby, now 34, was able to repeatedly attack babies on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit in 2015 and 2016 and how its bosses handled concerns about her. A number of experts, including neo-natal doctors and professors of statistics, have called for the inquiry’s terms of reference to be widened, as they believe there may have been a huge miscarriage of justice....