Lucy Letby's dad 'threatened to put gun to head of hospital boss', inquiry hears

Tony Chambers, the CEO of the Countess of Chester Hospital, met with the present convicted babe slayer and her parents - and said her dada had made threats to staff

Lucy Letby's dada threatened to enactment a weapon to a hospital chief executive's caput aft the slayer was allowed backmost to enactment with susceptible babies, a nationalist enquiry has heard.

Tony Chambers, the CEO of the Countess of Chester Hospital, met with present convicted babe slayer and her parents, Susan and John Letby, connected December 22, 2016 aft she had won a grievance process against the hospital. In notes from the meeting, Mr Chambers told today's sitting of the Thirlwall Inquiry, which is investigating events astatine the hospital, Mr Chambers had praised Letby for her resilience and said that she could instrumentality to work

The proceeding heard: “Letby’s begetter was precise angry,” Mr Chambers said. "He was making threats, that would person conscionable made an already hard concern adjacent worse by threatening GMC referrals for the doctors, he’s threatening guns to my caput and each sorts of things.”

Mr Letby was besides said to person “exerted pressure” via telephone calls to members of unit astatine the hospital. The hospital’s past HR manager Sue Hodkinson earlier told the enquiry that it was the lone clip she had spoken to a comparative of a unit subordinate astir an employment issue.

Mr Letby's calls to Sue Hodkinson came weeks aft a gathering successful December 2016 erstwhile Mr Letby and his wife, Sue, stated to infirmary executives their girl “had been to hellhole and back” aft she was moved from the portion 5 months earlier pursuing the concerns expressed by the advisor body. Mr Letby besides made galore telephone calls to occupational wellness caregiver Kathryn de Beger, who had been assigned to enactment Letby pursuing her redeployment.

Giving evidence, Ms Hodkinson said: “She described to maine however Mr Letby was getting agitated connected the telephone with her, that it was becoming progressively hard to negociate and she felt precise uncomfortable. I felt I needed to enactment her done this situation. In information I don’t deliberation I had ever spoken to a subordinate of a household successful narration to an employment issue. That was the lone time. And past having the speech with Mr Letby it was precise wide it was a precise hard acceptable of conversations.

“In my presumption helium wanted to explicit his choler towards the ongoing concern with Letby. John was placing Kathryn nether important unit to person the calls escalated to a much elder level. In mean circumstances I would not person dealt with a telephone of this quality oregon spoken to a unit member’s parent." In 2023 Letby was recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting 7 babies successful her attraction betwixt 2015 and 2016 and attempting to execution six others. She was sentenced to a full life-order meaning she volition dice successful jail.