Lucy Letby inquiry should be postponed or changed, experts say

Group including neonatal experts and statistics professors question its setup amid concerns about conviction

A group including some of the UK's leading neonatal experts and professors of statistics is calling on the government to postpone or change the terms of a public inquiry over concerns about the conviction of the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby.

In a private letter to ministers, seen by the Guardian, the 24 experts said they were concerned that the inquiry's narrow terms could prevent lessons being learned about possible negligent deaths that were presumed to be murders" in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester hospital (CoC).