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Stewart Whittingham<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andy Gill<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lucy Letby killed babies while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Lawyers for former bosses of the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby murdered babies have asked for the public inquiry into the events surrounding her crimes to be suspended.<\/p>\n

Inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall said she had received the request from counsel for the management team weeks after a panel of international medical experts blamed the deaths on bad medical care and natural causes.<\/p>\n

She said she had previously had similar pleas from Letby’s legal team and Conservative MP David Davis, who has called for a retrial.<\/p>\n

Submissions will be heard on the topic later at Liverpool Town Hall, along with the closing statements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Letby, 35, originally from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others.<\/p>\n

Lady Justice Thirlwall said that lawyers for the former hospital executives – chief executive Tony Chambers, medical director Ian Harvey, director of nursing Alison Kelly and HR director Sue Hodkinson – had also written to the secretary of state for health to seek a suspension of the inquiry.<\/p>\n

The findings of a panel of 14 international experts in neonatology and paediatrics were revealed by Letby’s legal team last month.<\/p>\n

Chairman of the panel Dr Shoo Lee said the experts had poured over trial transcripts and medical records and they “did not find any murders”.<\/p>\n

Those findings have been passed to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.<\/p>\n

Letby’s legal team hopes the commission will refer her case back to the Court of Appeal. <\/p>\n

A crowd of about 50 people gathered outside Liverpool Town Hall before the inquiry resumed, holding signs claiming Letby was innocent. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Protesters outside the public hearing in Liverpool call for Letby to be freed<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Thirlwall Inquiry is hearing closing submissions from core participants after it finished hearing evidence in January.<\/p>\n

In his closing speech, Neil Sheldon KC, who represents the Department of Health and Social Care, said lessons from previous cases where health professionals had harmed babies had not been learnt.<\/p>\n

In 1991 a nurse, Beverly Allitt, murdered four children at a hospital in Lincolnshire and in 2015 another nurse, Victorino Chua, was jailed for murdering two patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.<\/p>\n

Mr Sheldon said “There has been a long standing failure to learn the lesson of past inquiries and investigations and to implement those lessons. <\/p>\n

“Recommendation have been made but insufficient action has been taken.<\/p>\n

“The tragic events at the Countess of Chester Hospital should not have been allowed to happen in the first place.”<\/p>\n

Lady Justice Thirlwall is due to publish her final report this autumn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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