Father says staff at Countess of Chester hospital did not look as if they ‘really knew what they were doing’
has described frantic scenes as the children collapsed, with medical staff appearing to search online for tutorials to guide them through “everyday” medical procedures.
Letby, 34, was sentenced to 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others.town hall, is examining events at the hospital’s neonatal unit, where Letby was a nurse from 2015 to 2016. She was first arrested in 2018 and convicted in 2023 and 2024.
The father, who cannot be named, went on: “There was another doctor at what looked like a makeshift desk using a screen to look up how to perform the chest drain and where the incisions and tubes should go. It looked as though they were following a tutorial and not as if they really knew what they were doing.”
“The procedure was a lung drain. On the screen, there was an image of a person with an arrow pointing to where the incision should be. It was a medical diagram. I think the staff heard me talking about it.
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