Letby, a former nurse at Countess of Cheshire Hospital, was recently convicted of murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder six more, in the hospital’s neonatal ward between 2015 and 2016. — Cheshire Constabulary/TNS
IN a case that gripped the world’s media, Lucy Letby, a young British nurse, was been convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others. There’s more to this story than lurid tabloid tragedy. The big issue is why whistleblowers in the National Health Service, on this occasion and many others, were ignored by hospital managers.
Letby isn’t the only psychopath to have stalked the UK medical profession in recent years. Nurse Beverley Allitt was jailed for life in 1991 after murdering four children, while doctor Harold Shipman was convicted in 2000 of taking the lives of 15 patients, although he is suspected of murdering as many as 200 more.
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