The mother of a baby boy murdered by Lucy Letby has demanded a face-to-face apology from the hospital medical director who she said “kept her in the dark” over the circumstances of her son’s death. She told the public inquiry into the events surrounding the crimes of the serial killer nurse that the first she knew that an individual was linked to Child C’s death was when Cheshire Police phoned the family in the early hours of July 3 2018 to inform them someone had been arrested on suspicion of his murder. Giving evidence on Monday, Child C’s mother said: “We absolutely had no idea that there had been layer upon layer upon layer of concern voiced by various people within the hospital about the conduct of Lucy Letby and her association with these deaths.
And to not inform us of any of this and for us to get a phone call out of the blue from a police officer in the early hours of the morning...
it was an absolute shock that day. We had not anticipated that that was going to happen.” Letby forced air down a feeding tube and into the stomach of Child C who died in June 2015, days after another fatal attack on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Child C’s mother said she was not even aware that another infant had died the same week until the start of the criminal trial that followed. She said her family had “endured years of anxiety and stress” from the initial arrest of Letby to her convictions. She told the inquiry: “The events of that nig.