John Gibbs tells inquiry into deaths at Countess of Chester hospital that police should have been contacted sooner
Dr John Gibbs told the inquiry doctors received ‘very firm pushback’ from senior nurses when they raised growing suspicions about Letby.Dr John Gibbs told the inquiry doctors received ‘very firm pushback’ from senior nurses when they raised growing suspicions about Letby.John Gibbs told a public inquiry that doctors received “very firm pushback” from senior nurses when they raised growing suspicions about Letby in early 2016.
Letby, 34, was sentenced to 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Letby was last year found guilty of attempting to murder Child F, a week-old twin boy, by poisoning him with insulin on 5 August 2015. In the previous two months the nurse had murdered four newborns and attempted to kill another.
Gibbs, who worked at the Countess of Chester hospital from 1994 to 2019, said the concern of doctors grew in early 2016 after a number of other unexplained incidents. He added: “I regret that we, or I, didn’t go to the police at this time after the thematic review. Why didn’t I go straight to police? Why didn’t paediatricians go straight to the police?
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