The Latest Breaking News from the Countess of Chester Hospital

The Countess of Chester Hospital’s then-medical director Ian Harvey was appearing at the Thirlwall Inquiry into events surrounding the nurse’s crimes.

Tony Chambers was chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital at the time the nurse murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others.

Lucy Letby, a former neonatal nurse, was convicted after two trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Sentenced to life imprisonment following a case which many believe was built on circumstantial evidence, Letby has consistently maintained her innocence.

Why are people contesting the evidence against the former UK nurse, convicted of killing seven newborns?

Inquiry into murder of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital hears about newborn girl fitted with stoma

Child C’s mother tells Thirlwall inquiry her family was ‘misled’ in a way that had ‘compounded our grief’

The presence of a doctor on a ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital “features in a number of cases of babies who collapse”, according to a leaked document

Former bosses at the Countess of Chester Hospital have also apologised to the families of victims at the inquiry into the murders by Lucy Letby

Hearings to examine events at the Countess of Chester hospital while Letby worked there will begin today