Nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016
Nurse Lucy Letby found guilty – full story
A law firm representing two of the families of Letby’s victims said the verdicts would not be “the end of our search for answers and our fight for justice for our clients”.
Yvonne Agnew, the head of clinical negligence Cardiff at Slater and Gordon, said the parents were “determined that lessons are learnt” by the Countess of Chester hospital, the NHS and the wider medical profession “so that no babies or parents are put in harm’s way like this again”.
For more than eight months, we’ve had to hear some of the most harrowing details about what happened to our client’s children, something no parent should ever have to experience.
Becoming a parent is a particularly vulnerable time in anyone’s life. If your child needs special care, in that moment of helplessness, you put your utmost trust in medical professionals to do their best for you in what many people will tell you is the safest possible place – a hospital.”
The families that have endured this unimaginable suffering deserve to know exactly what happened, and those who use our NHS services need the reassurance that it can never happen again. That’s why, today, I have written to the secretary of state for health and social care, asking for a full, independent and public inquiry into this case.
Too many people now live with the consequences of the catastrophic harm caused by Letby.
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