Lucy Letby: Parents shocked to discover 'odd loner' heavily involved in baby's care

The parent of Child I gave grounds astatine the Thirlwall Inquiry successful Liverpool arsenic she described the wide murderer arsenic being 'a spot of a loner' earlier learning the horrifying truth

Parents of 1 of Lucy Letby's victims thought she was an "odd loner" earlier discovering she had murdered their babe daughter.

Child I was injected with aerial by the evil nurse, who is presently serving the remainder of her beingness down bars for 7 murders and 7 attempts of infants astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital. The girl's parent addressed the Thirlwall Inquiry into the crimes this week, saying Letby chopped an unusual fig and that they were stunned to realise however progressive she'd been successful their daughter's care.

"Her look was ever connected the babies' fundraising pictures," the mum said successful a connection to the enquiry successful Liverpool. "I retrieve reasoning she was a spot quiescent and a spot odd. She ever seemed a spot of a loner. We saw her astir connected the unusual juncture but we didn't person overmuch to bash with her."

The parent said she was "absolutely shocked" astatine receiving her daughter's aesculapian records and realised however progressive Letby had been. "She is each implicit her notes," she said. "I person noticed a batch of the 'care' was erstwhile I wasn't present."

She besides told the enquiry she felt infirmary bosses connected "huge salaries" had 'protected and facilitated' the slayer by "trying to make their ain communicative that Lucy Letby was a unfortunate of bullying". "I judge the doctors and nursing unit should person acted earlier," said the mother, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons.

She added: "Those successful positions of authorization astatine the infirmary should person listened to them alternatively of trying to make their ain communicative that Lucy Letby was a unfortunate of bullying and harassment. Someone should person investigated the concerns afloat astatine the time.

"This is what absorption are paid truthful handsomely to do. They shouldn't person been concentrating connected redeeming their ain skins and jobs and reputations. Babies died due to the fact that idiosyncratic successful an bureau being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds didn't privation the infirmary to look atrocious if they unopen the neonatal portion down portion they investigated wherefore truthful galore babies were deteriorating erstwhile they should person been thriving."

Child I would person turned 9 this year, the parent said, adding that nary genitor "should ever person to spell done what we person been and proceed to spell done each day". Letby, 34, is presently serving 15 full beingness orders for the murders of 7 babies and attempts connected 7 others astatine the hospital's neonatal portion betwixt 2015 and 2016.

The inquiry, led by Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall, was opened earlier this period astatine Liverpool Town Hall to analyse what happened astatine the infirmary and effectiveness of NHS absorption astatine the clip of the deaths.