Lucy Letby cops to probe whether she harmed MORE babies while working as student nurse
DETECTIVES who brought killer Lucy Letby to justice have launched a second investigation into whether she harmed any other babies while working as a student nurse at two hospitals.
So far officers have looked into only her killings between June 2015 and June 2016 at The Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire.
As Letby faces life behind bars, they are continuing their investigation — dating it back to 2012 when she started at the Countess.
But they are also investigating Liverpool Women’s Hospital where she worked on placements in 2012 and 2015.
In that time about 4,000 babies would have passed through the hospitals’ maternity wards.
Police are confident the 33-year-old has not killed any other children but believe she may have harmed or tried to harm one.
Officers are reviewing thousands of medical files and some parents have already either come forward with suspicions or been contacted by police.
Others have already had specialist family liaison officers assigned to them. Det Supt Paul Hughes, of Cheshire Police, said: “There’s a lot of years to go through, a massive amount of medical records, so it would just be unfair to speculate.
“We are committed to a thorough investigation across the entire footprint.
“We are committed to investigating all of the times that Lucy Letby has been employed as a nurse and has had access to neonatal units.”
It is likely senior officers will visit Letby to see if she will admit other crimes.
Det Chief Insp Nicola Evans said: “We’ve set up our own reception team so that if anybody does have concerns about their own child, wherever that hospital may be, if they contact Cheshire Police they will be put through.
“They’ll speak to an investigator on this inquiry, and hopefully that means they will receive some answers pretty quickly.”
The six-year investigation has already cost millions but the force said money would not be a barrier to uncovering all Letby’s crimes.
