People who were managers when Ms. Letby was convicted of killing babies were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.
Three senior managers who worked at the hospital where Lucy Letby, then a neonatal nurse, was convicted of murdering seven babies have been arrested as part of a police investigation into manslaughter by “gross negligence.”
Cheshire Constabulary, the local police force responsible for investigating a series of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said the three people were part of the hospital’s “senior leadership team” between 2015 and 2016. Ms. Letby was convicted in 2023 of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others during that period.
Ms. Letby was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. She has always maintained her innocence, and her lawyers have applied for her convictions to be overturned by the Britain’s Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates accusations of miscarriages of justice. No timing for that decision has been set.
In the arrests of the three senior managers, the police did not name the suspects, in accordance with internal guidelines and British privacy laws. But they said the managers had been arrested on Monday on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter and had been released on bail as the investigation continued.
The offense covers deaths that were the result of negligence and can be used in cases involving poor medical treatment.
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