Now hospital bosses call for Letby halt

Probe is urged to wait for baby killer's appeal

- BY KEITH FALKINER

FORMER bosses at the UK hospital where jailed Lucy Letby worked have asked for the public inquiry into her crimes to be suspended as she prepares an appeal against her conviction for killing babies.

Chair Lady Justice Thirlwall yesterday revealed she was sent the plea last month from counsel for the management team at the Countess of Chester.

She also said she received a written request from Letby’s new solicitors asking for her to pause the probe.

It came weeks after an international panel of neonatologists and paediatric specialists claimed bad medical care and natural causes were the real reasons for the frequent baby collapses and deaths on the neonatal unit.

Those medical findings have been passed to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, and Letby’s legal team hope her case will be referred back to the Court of Appeal.