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Three former bosses of UK nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of killing
babies, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
By Lauren Kent, CNN
Updated:
12:12 PM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025
Source: CNN
Three people who were part of the senior leadership team at the
hospital where nurse and worked have been arrested on suspicion of
gross negligence manslaughter, British police said Tuesday.
The three senior staff members, who have not been named by police,
worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016 at the same
time as Letby. All three suspects have been released on bail after
being questioned by police on Monday.
“It is important to note that this does not impact on the convictions
of Lucy Letby for multiple offences of murder and attempted murder,”
Cheshire Constabulary Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes said in a
statement.
The aspect of the investigation related to the latest arrests focuses
on the “grossly negligent action or inaction of individuals,”
police said. Meanwhile, another ongoing part of the investigation into
the separate offence of corporate manslaughter “focuses on senior
leadership and their decision making to determine whether any
criminality has taken place concerning the response to the increased
levels of fatalities.”
Letby, 34, was found guilty of murdering seven children and attempting
to murder seven more between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in
the neonatal unit of the hospital in Chester, England. The former nurse
is serving 15 whole-life sentences.
The court heard during the case in 2023 that Letby attacked babies in
her care by administering air into their blood and stomachs,
overfeeding them with milk, physically assaulting them, and poisoning
them with insulin.
However, her convictions have been criticized after an international
panel of experts raised questions regarding the medical evidence.
The panel said there was no medical evidence indicating murder and that
the babies’ collapses resulted from “either natural causes or bad
medical care.”
It also highlighted issues of unsafe delays in diagnosis and treatments
at Countess of Chester Hospital and said that in some cases staff were
working “probably beyond their expected ability or designated level
of care,” according to
Last week, former UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt called for an
“urgent reexamination” after experts raised “serious and
credible” questions.
Independent experts “are saying there is no medical evidence in the
17 deaths that were examined in the trial of what they call
maleficence, of malicious intent,” Hunt said in an interview with
Good Morning Britain, calling for a speedy review by the UK’s
Criminal Cases Review Commission. “If they are saying that, then I
really think we need to do this.”
“I am not arguing that Letby is innocent. That is not my place… The
pain endured by the families affected must also be at the forefront of
our minds,” published in the Daily Mail newspaper last month, arguing
that the families deserve the truth. “And if medical error was the
cause, we can then make sure no more babies die from the same
mistakes.”
Letby has maintained her innocence and her lawyer Mark McDonald
submitted an application earlier this year for her case to be reviewed
by the commission. Letby’s previous attempts to overturn her
convictions have been refused by the court.
McDonald told the UK’s PA Media on Tuesday that a proper and full
public inquiry into failings by the hospital’s neonatal and pediatric
medical care unit is needed.
“The concerns many have raised will not go away, and we will continue
to publicly discuss them,” McDonald said, according to PA. “The
reality is that 26 internationally renowned experts have looked at this
case and the lead expert has concluded that no crime was committed, no
babies were murdered.”
A is set to be published in early 2026. That inquiry previously heard
evidence from the senior hospital leadership about the concerns raised
regarding the rise in infant deaths at the neonatal unit, and the
actions taken as a result.
Cheshire Police said they were continuing to investigate “the deaths
and non-fatal collapses of babies at the neo-natal units of both the
Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital,”
at which Letby undertook training placements. The elements of the
investigation related to corporate manslaughter and gross negligence
manslaughter are also ongoing, police said.
A spokeswoman for the Countess of Chester Hospital said it “would not
be appropriate” for the hospital to comment due to “the ongoing
police investigations” and public inquiry, PA reported.
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