Letby ‘could have accessed baby death reports after removal from neonatal unit’

Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders (Cheshire Constabulary/PA)

Lucy Letby could have accessed patient notes and reports on baby deaths after she was taken off a neonatal unit over suspicions she was deliberately harming infants, a public inquiry has heard.

Consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital demanded the removal amid mounting concerns about Letby’s presence at a series of unexpected and unexplained deaths and collapses of infants in 2015 and 2016.