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LONDON (AP) — Three senior leaders at the English hospital where
nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering babies were arrested
on suspicion of manslaughter, police said Tuesday.
The people under investigation for gross negligence manslaughter
were arrested when a corporate manslaughter probe was expanded
following Letby’s 2023 convictions for the infant deaths at the
Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England, said
Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes of the Cheshire
Constabulary.
“This 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,” Hughes said.
Letby, 35, is serving multiple life sentences with no chance of
release after being convicted of seven counts of murder and
attempting to murder seven other infants between June 2015 and
June 2016 while working as a neonatal nurse at the hospital.
Letby was convicted in a sensational trial two years ago, but
since then support for her has grown as a panel of medical
experts disputed the evidence against her and a lawyer said she
was wrongly convicted.
The three suspects were not named and were released on bail.
Hughes said the arrests don't have an impact on Letby's
convictions.
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