The mother of a young boy slain by Lucy Letby has requested a personal apology from the hospital’s medical director, who she claims “kept her in the dark” about her son’s death.
She told the public inquiry into the serial killer nurse’s crimes that she first learnt of an individual’s involvement in Child C’s death when Cheshire Police called the family in the early hours of September 2024 to inform them that someone had been arrested on suspicion of his murder.
Giving testimony on Monday, Child C’s mother stated: “We absolutely had no idea that there had been layer upon layer upon layer of concern voiced by various people within the hospital about Lucy Letby’s conduct and her association with these deaths.” We were surprised to receive a phone call from a police officer in the early morning hours, as we had not been informed of anything. We had not expected that to happen.”
Letby forced air down a feeding tube and into the stomach of Child C who died in June 2015, days after another fatal attack on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Child C’s mother said she was not even aware that another infant had died the same week until the start of the criminal trial that followed.
She said her family had “endured years of anxiety and stress” from the initial arrest of Letby to her convictions.
She told the inquiry: “The events of that night and everything that has happened since have left an indelible mark upon us which will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
“We had suffered immeasurably from the moment our son collapsed. The trauma that we faced from then until now is thoroughly incomprehensible to anyone who has not endured it.
“I have been truly horrified as we have learnt more and more detail of the extent of information that was withheld from us by the management at the Countess of Chester.”
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