Cheshire Constabulary has confirmed that Lucy Letby has been interviewed under caution by police in prison as part of ongoing investigations into further child deaths at two hospitals.
The force said it had “recently” spoken to the former neonatal nurse about deaths and non-fatal falls at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
Letby was convicted of the murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of a further seven people in the Countess of Chester between 2015 and 2016.
It is understood he has not previously been interviewed over the deaths at Liverpool Hospital – where he worked 30 shifts across two sites between 2012 and 2015.
A statement from Cheshire Police confirmed that Latby had been questioned about further child deaths. Reporting in the Daily Mail. The force also said more information would be released “in due course”.
Latby, 34, from Hereford, is serving 15 life sentences after being convicted at Manchester Crown Court last year of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill seven others, in June. Between 2015 and June 2016, two attempts were made on one of his victims. .
After her trial, Cheshire Constabulary revealed that officers were investigating the time she spent at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in 2012 and 2015.
Detectives are reviewing Letby’s entire career, an effort that includes reviewing the admissions of more than 4,000 babies to the neonatal units where she was.
In October, BBC Panorama uncovered the fatal incidents which took place on around a third of Latby’s shifts in Liverpool..
In one case in November 2012, a child collapsed and was later found to have water in his breathing tube – something highly unusual. Medical notes confirmed that the nurse caring for him was Letby.
The program also looked at evidence which may have shown that a baby had been poisoned with insulin while in her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital. This case was not part of the trial.
Latby’s case and the implications for the NHS are currently being examined at the Thirlwall Inquiry, which last month heard from the Countess of Chester’s lead pediatric consultant who originally raised the alarm about it.
Dr Stephen Breary told the inquest at Liverpool Town Hall: “On reflection I think it is likely that Latby did not start. [to] became murderers in June 2015, or did not begin harming children in 2015.”
In September, a barrister representing the families of the 12 children said Liverpool Women’s Hospital had carried out its own audit of Letby’s time there.
Richard Baker QC told the inquest that the children’s breathing tubes had worn off at an “extraordinary” rate while they were on shift.. They became homeless on about 40% of shifts, compared to “typically less than 1% of shifts”.
But there has been. Important discussion of the science used in the case against Letby – Several experts have challenged the medical evidence used to convict him.
Letby’s new legal team say they also take a different view of the new evidence – and have said they plan to take his case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission next year for a court hearing. An appeal may be filed for remand.
He is He has previously lost several appeals against his convictions..
There is also a Tharwal inquiry. I heard from hospital owners in recent days, some of whom are speaking publicly about the case for the first time.
Former Chairman Sir Duncan Nicol told the inquest that his decision not to invite doctors to an important meeting was a “huge personal failure”..