Karen Rees tells Thirlwall inquiry she had ‘never been so relieved’ when police were eventually called
A senior nurse said she pleaded with a hospital executive to contact the police over allegations about Lucy Letby .A senior nurse said she pleaded with a hospital executive to contact the police over allegations about Lucy Letby .hospital, said she wanted a criminal investigation because other reviews were “getting nowhere” and “relationships were breaking down all over the place”.
The inquiry, chaired by Lady Justice Thirlwall, is examining the events surrounding the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of seven more by Letby in the year to June 2016. Tests later revealed the baby had congenital hyperinsulinism – a condition where the body produces too much insulin – but experts told the BBC this could not explain such an exceptionally high insulin reading for the infant.
Rees said she was not involved in any meetings with senior doctors who raised concerns about Letby’s connection to the series of unexpected and unexplained deaths as early as June 2015. She accepted that the concern of senior doctors should have been enough to withdraw the nurse from frontline duties, but that she felt “bullied and intimidated into making a decision”. She added: “I thought it was personal and perhaps I was slighted by that.”
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