Child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order for her horrific crimes.
29.08.2023 - 15:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The chairman of the hospital at the time Lucy Letby carried out her killing spree was the chief executive of NHS England at the time of the 'Angel of Death' Beverley Allitt murders.
The chief executive of NHS England – effectively the NHS’ most senior leader – from 1989 to 1994 was Sir Duncan Nichol. While working as a paediatric nurse at a Lincolnshire hospital, serial killer Beverley Allitt murdered four infants, attempted to murder three others, and caused grievous bodily harm to six more in 1991.
The chairman of the Countess of Chester Hospital from 2012, leading the trust during the period of Letby’s killings, was coincidentally the same man, Sir Duncan Nichol. He retired from the NHS in 2019, a year after killer nurse Letby was arrested following a series of unexplained baby deaths on the neonatal unit where she worked.
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He has since said the board were 'misled' about Letby, claiming the board had been 'told explicitly that there was no criminal activity pointing to any one individual' after reviews of the baby deaths were carried out in 2016. However, doctors have said they had been raising concerns about Letby's conduct and presence at each of the collapses and deaths throughout 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Parallels have been drawn between the killings of Letby to the crimes of Allitt. While working as a paediatric nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire, Allitt was found to have murdered four infants, attempted to murder three others, and caused grievous bodily harm to another six.
The then 22-year-old attacked 13 children over a period of 59 days in 1991 using methods that were disturbingly similar to those used
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