Inquiry hears doctor asked bosses to contact police a week before Letby murdered final babies – but was told a review would be held instead
A consultant paediatrician urged hospital bosses in an email on 29 June 2016 to contact Cheshire constabulary about a series of ‘unexpected and unexplained’ deaths.A consultant paediatrician urged hospital bosses in an email on 29 June 2016 to contact Cheshire constabulary about a series of ‘unexpected and unexplained’ deaths.
Saladi told the inquiry on Thursday that unexpected deaths were “extremely rare” at the district general hospital and that initially doctors thought there might have been an infection on the unit. The inquiry heard that Saladi emailed senior doctors and executives the following day to say that the police should be contacted as they could “look into people’s lives” and search the nurse’s home.
Asked whether Stephen Cross, the hospital’s then-director of legal services and corporate affairs, had made any comment about police involvement during this meeting, Saladi said: “I think there was talk of ‘red tape’ like ‘the media vans will be all on our grounds’. There was some concern that we will be in the media spotlight.”
Richard Baker KC, for some of the bereaved families, asked Saladi about the initial concern of doctors about an infection or hospital bug causing the babies’ deaths.
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