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The Thirlwall Inquiry into Lucy Letby will begin public hearings in September

Lucy Letby had already been convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others

Prosecution case rested largely on testimony of Dr Ravi Jayaram, who was said to have walked in on murder attempt

There was keen interest in seeing the former nurse give evidence and at one point she gave a flicker of emotion

Former nurse tells court it was hospital policy to wait and see if a baby ‘self-corrected’ rather than intervene immediately

Nurse convicted last year of seven murders takes stand for first time in attempted murder trial

Ex-nurse denies trying to murder infant by tampering with breathing tube at Countess of Chester hospital

Consultant tells jury there was also an ‘element of denial’ after he saw nurse allegedly try to murder newborn girl

The recent conviction of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven infants and attempted to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-2016, has raised fundamental questions about how something like this could have happened – and why it took so long to stop…

Blinded by the nurse’s supposed ‘vulnerability’, the hospital rounded on doctors raising concerns, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Medics said that NHS managers should be regulated in a similar way to doctors and nurses.