Countess of Chester senior nurse said placements would give Letby ‘break’ from stress, despite knowing she was under investigation over babies’ deaths
Lucy Letby was encouraged by a senior nurse to undertake regular visits to Alder Hey children’s hospital despite her being under investigation on suspicion of murdering babies, a public inquiry has heard.
De Beger said she knew that Letby was accused of murdering babies when she encouraged the visits to Alder Hey in April 2017, but that she assumed they had been agreed by senior managers.that the placements between January and April 2017 were arranged “informally” by a doctor who had struck up a close friendship with Letby, and that senior managers at Alder Hey were unaware she was under investigation.
De Beger was asked by Andrew Bershadski, counsel to the inquiry, whether she had believed at that stage that the allegations against Letby were false and that she was therefore “safe” to visit Alder Hey. She replied: “That’s not my remit at all.” In one email read to the inquiry, sent in early 2017, De Beger told Letby: “I understand why you are feeling like you are but you have all the reassurance that the execs and us support you returning to the and that is where you belong.”
“I do remember at this time that she was very very distressed, very very confused about why she couldn’t go back, why it had been paused, why she couldn’t go back when she had been visiting the unit. So I felt that was an explanation of all those mixed emotions and her confusion about what was happening.”
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