Senior doctor ‘ashamed’ he failed to protect babies from Lucy Letby

John Gibbs tells inquiry into deaths at Countess of Chester hospital that police should have been contacted sooner

A senior doctor has said he is ashamed" he failed to stop the nurse Lucy Letby from harming babies and that police should have been contacted a year earlier.

John Gibbs told a public inquiry that doctors received very firm pushback" from senior nurses when they raised growing suspicions about Letby in early 2016.