Nursing boss apologises to Letby victims’ families for not acting sooner

The Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester where Lucy Letby worked on the neonatal unit (Peter Byrne/PA)

A nursing boss has apologised to families of Lucy Letby’s victims that action was not taken sooner over concerns raised about the child serial killer nurse.

Letby was allowed to continue working on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit until July 2016 despite worries from the unit’s clinical lead in October 2015 that Letby had been on duty for a spate of unexpected deaths that year.