Registrar who exchanged more than 1,000 messages with nurse tells public inquiry he believes he was misled
The registrar, who can only be named as Dr U, said he had supported the nurse because she was “struggling with her mental health” but that he now believed he had been “misled and maybe manipulated”.
Rachel Langdale KC, counsel to the inquiry, said Dr U had exchanged 1,355 Facebook messages with Letby from June 2016, spanning from “quite frivolous casual conversation” to “entirely inappropriate” discussions about newborn patients. In one message after Letby was removed from the neonatal unit in July 2016, Dr U told her: “You’re still the best nurse I’ve ever worked with.”
Dr U said he wanted to “reassure her” at the time but that he now believed this was a “massive mistake”. “And for that I am really sorry that things have come to end as they have. I have a lot of regrets about how that period of time took place.” In the statement, a hospital executive said Dr U’s request on Letby’s behalf was “informal in nature” and that senior managers had been unaware, “therefore no inquiries had been made about her role or background”.
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