Mum of Lucy Letby baby victim says hospital bosses 'facilitated a mass murderer'

The Thirlwall Inquiry charged by Lady Justice Thirlwall is examining how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies and attempt to kill seven others in a year long killing spree

The mother of one of Lucy Letby's victims has slammed hospital bosses telling them they "facilitated a mass murderer" by ignoring concerns about the evil nurse.

She said her baby girl's death in October 2015 could have been prevented if action had been taken after the deaths of three other infants earlier that year.

Letby killed Child I by injecting air into her stomach and bloodstream.

In a statement read to the public inquiry over Letby's crimes, Child I's mother said: "I believe the doctors and nursing staff should have acted earlier."

She added: "Those in positions of authority at the hospital should have listened to them instead of trying to create their own narrative that Lucy Letby was a victim of bullying and harassment.

"Someone should have investigated the concerns fully at the time. This is what management are paid so handsomely to do. They shouldn't have been concentrating on saving their own skins and jobs and reputations.

"Babies died because someone in an office being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds didn't want the hospital to look bad if they shut the neonatal unit down while they investigated why so many babies were deteriorating when they should have been thriving."

The mum described Letby as acting odd and 'a bit of a loner' at the time she had been on the ward with her baby. But she also noticed her face was all over posters across the unit.

When she finally received her daughter's medical notes the mum said she was shocked at Letby's involvement in her 'care' when she wasn't there.

In an emotional end to her testimony, she told the Thirlwall Inquiry: "Our baby would have turned nine this year. We should have been watching her grow and play with her siblings and friends.

"However, we have to somehow try to live with the fact all this has been taken away from her and us in the cruellest way possible. No parent should ever have to go through what we have been and continue to go through each and every day.

"To understand how easily my beautiful girl's death could have been prevented hurts even more. Forever and a day,I will continue to ask 'why?"'

Letby, 34, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.