Letby's parents complained she was 'singled out for punishment'
The Guardian|December 03, 2024
Lucy Letby's parents wrote to hospital bosses expressing their "intolerable anguish" after police began investigating their neonatal nurse daughter, a public inquiry heard yesterday.
Hannah Al-Othman
Letby's parents complained she was 'singled out for punishment'

Two months after officers from Cheshire constabulary were brought into the hospital to investigate an increased number of baby deaths on the neonatal ward in 2015 and 2016, John and Susan Letby wrote to the Countess of Chester hospital's then board chair, Sir Duncan Nichol.

"It is now one year since our nightmare began," they wrote. "There is a saying 'innocent until proven guilty' but it doesn't seem to apply to Lucy.

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