Bosses at serial killer Lucy Letby's hospital slammed for 'whitewash' and labelled an 'absolute disgrace' by GP mother of murdered baby, inquiry hears LISTEN: No.1 podcast the The Trial of Lucy Letby is back! Follow the latest updates from the Thirlwall Inquiry wherever you get your podcasts now By Liz Hull Published: 16:08 EDT, 16 September 2024 | Updated: 16:45 EDT, 16 September 2024 e-mail The GP mother of a premature baby boy murdered by Lucy Letby has demanded a face-to-face apology from a hospital manager who covered up suspicions about the killer nurse and lied about failings in her son's care. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, branded Ian Harvey, the former medical director at the Countess of Chester Hospital, an 'absolute disgrace,' saying he had 'thoroughly betrayed' her and her husband and compounded their grief and distress.
The couple's son, known as Baby C, was the second baby boy murdered by Letby, 34, in the space of a week, in June 2015. But his mother told the public inquiry into Letby's crimes that they had no clue the hospital was investigating a spike in neo-natal deaths until they read about it in a local newspaper article a year later, in July 2016. When she turned up at the hospital's bereavement office to find out what was going on, another senior manager, then director of nursing, Alison Kelly, apologised and reassured her the investigation, which was being carried out by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was a 'forma.