In the quiet wards where the most fragile lives begin, a system meant to protect failed in ways that demand reckoning. The Thirlwall Inquiry has published its findings on how Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse already serving 15 whole-life sentences, was permitted to continue working at the Countess of Chester Hospital for more than a year after concerns first arose in 2015 — a delay that may have cost infant lives. The report turns its gaze not toward individual guilt, already established by the courts, but toward the institutional silences, deferred decisions, and governance failures that allowed
Thirlwall Inquiry into Lucy Letby case publishes findings on hospital failures
Seven babies were murdered and seven others were harmed or attempted to be murdered by Lucy Letby while working as a neonatal nurse.