Prosecutors considering further charges against Lucy Letby
Prosecutors are considering bringing further charges against Lucy Letby following the deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at hospitals where she worked.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) received a “full file of evidence” from Cheshire Police regarding incidents at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
Former neonatal nurse Letby, 35, is serving 15 life sentences for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, one of whom on two occasions, at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
Cheshire Police has been investigating other incidents going back to 2012, covering Letby’s career and training in Liverpool.
Cheshire Police said it had “submitted a full file of evidence to the CPS for charging advice regarding the ongoing investigation into deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the neonatal units of both the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital as part of Operation Hummingbird”.
In a separate development, the force on Tuesday announced that three former senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital had been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
The latest evidence submitted to the CPS is not related to the gross negligence manslaughter arrests.
