Lucy Letby interviewed in prison over Liverpool baby deaths

Lucy Letby has been interviewed by police in jail underneath warning as a part of ongoing investigations into extra child deaths at two hospitals, Cheshire Constabulary has confirmed.

The drive mentioned it had “not too long ago” spoken to the previous neonatal nurse over deaths and non-fatal collapses on the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Ladies’s Hospital.

Letby was convicted of the murders of seven infants and the tried homicide of seven extra on the Countess of Chester between 2015 and 2016.

The 34-year-old’s lawyer instructed the BBC she had voluntarily attended a police interview and was not arrested, including: “Lucy continues to take care of her innocence.”

Barrister Mark McDonald added: “The police have been briefing about additional enquiries for over a 12 months.

“Any allegations must be taken critically so we’re solely stunned by the timing of this new leak from the police.”

The police assertion confirming Letby had been quizzed over extra child deaths adopted reporting in the Daily Mail.

The drive mentioned extra data could be launched “on the applicable time”.

Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven infants and making an attempt to homicide seven different infants between June 2015 and June 2016.

Letby, initially from Hereford, made two makes an attempt to kill one in all her victims.

Following her convictions, Cheshire Constabulary revealed officers had been investigating the time she had spent on two placements at Liverpool Ladies’s Hospital.

It’s a part of a wider examination into Letby’s entire profession.

This includes reviewing greater than 4,000 admissions into neonatal items the place Letby had been current.

In October, BBC Panorama revealed that probably life-threatening incidents had occurred on almost one third of Letby’s shifts in Liverpool.

In November 2012, a child boy collapsed and water was later present in his respiration tube – one thing which was extremely uncommon.

Scientific notes confirmed that the nurse taking care of him was Letby.

The programme additionally noticed proof which will have proven a child boy was poisoned with insulin while in her care on the Countess of Chester Hospital.

This case was not a part of Letby’s authentic trial.

Letby’s crimes and the implications for the NHS are at the moment being examined on the Thirlwall Inquiry.

The lead paediatric advisor on the Countess of Chester, who initially raised the alarm about Letby, testified final month.

Dr Stephen Breary instructed the inquiry at Liverpool City Corridor: “On reflection I believe it is probably that Letby didn’t begin [to] turn out to be a killer in June 2015, or didn’t begin harming infants in 2015.”

In September, a barrister representing the households of 12 infants mentioned Liverpool Ladies’s Hospital had carried out its personal audit into Letby’s time there.

Richard Baker KC instructed the inquiry that babies’ breathing tubes were dislodged at an “unusual” rate whereas she was on shift.

The inquiry heard they grew to become dislodged in about 40% of her shifts, in comparison with this “occurring usually in lower than 1% of shifts”.

Nevertheless, there has additionally been significant debate over the science used in the case against Letby.

Numerous specialists have challenged the medical proof used to convict her.

Letby’s new authorized group additionally take a distinct view of the brand new proof.

They’ve mentioned they plan to take her case to the Felony Instances Overview Fee subsequent 12 months, to use for it to be despatched again to the Courtroom of Enchantment.

On the latest police interview, Mr McDonald mentioned: “Lucy voluntarily attended an interview; she was not arrested.

“Lucy continues to take care of her innocence and as she has mentioned all through she has by no means and would by no means hurt any youngster.”

Letby has previously lost several appeals against her convictions.

The Thirwall Inquiry has additionally heard from the Countess of Chester’s bosses in latest days, a few of whom are talking publicly concerning the case for the primary time.

Former chairman Sir Duncan Nichol told the inquiry that his resolution to not invite the medical doctors who suspected her to an necessary assembly was “an enormous private failure”.