Three directors of the hospital where the Lucy Letby serial killer has committed their facts were arrested by the British Police
Entrance to “Counter of Chester” Hospital where Lucy Letby worked, photo: Jacob King / Pa Images / Profimedia
Three directors of the hospital in which the nurse Lucy Letby killed several newborns were arrested under the suspicion of serious negligence, the British police, quoted by Reuters and The London Evening Standard, announced on Tuesday.
Letby, 35, was sentenced to life imprisonment, after being found guilty in August 2023 by the killing of seven newborns and the attempt to kill eight others.
The facts took place between June 2015 and June 2016, while she was working in the Neonatology section of the “Counter of Chester” Hospital (Coch) in northern England.
The nurse, considered the most prolific criminal in the series of children in the UK in the modern era, has supported its innocence throughout the trial, but British Justice has sentenced it to life without the possibility of conditional release.
British authorities are investigating how the crimes committed by Letby were possible
After Letby's conviction, the police began to investigate possible administrative irregularities at the hospital, an investigation that was later extended to analyze whether certain persons could be guilty of murder by serious negligence.
The main inspector detective Paul Hughes, who leads the investigation, said that three members of the hospital management team, whose names were not made public, were arrested on Monday.
Subsequently, they were released on bail, waiting for the continuation of the investigations.
“Both the investigation in the REM and the one related to the murder by serious negligence are in progress, and for these there are no established deadlines,” Hughes said in a statement.
He added that the police investigation on the possibility of Letby had committed other offenses within the hospital or in another unit where he had previously worked is also in progress.
The serial criminal that terrified the UK
The 25-year-old nurse at the time of crime was accused of injected intravenous air to newborns, of using nasogastric probes to inject air or an overdose of milk into the stomach. She was also accused of injected insulin. Sometimes it combines more aggressions until babies were dying.
“I was intentionally killed because I am not good enough to take care of them,” the woman wrote in a ticket found by the police officers who searched her home after being arrested. “I am a bad, horrible person,” she wrote.
She was the only member of the medical staff still service during the sudden deterioration of the state of the newborns, stressed Judge James Goss, who pronounced the sentence.
The trial started on October 10, 2022 at Manchester. Babies were identified only by letters, from A to Q, to protect families. The parents testified, sometimes with tears in their eyes.
Letby was accused of trying to kill some of them on several occasions. There were 22 charges against them, seven for murder and 15 for attempted murder on 10 babies.
Among the victims were twins and triplets, two of whom died 24 hours away after Lucy Letby returned from June 2016. The third baby escaped alive, after the parents asked to be transferred to another hospital.
