Convicted youngster killer Lucy Letby has been quizzed a few additional spate of child deaths, Cheshire Police have confirmed. The previous nurse was interviewed below warning in jail, over various sudden deaths and collapses of infants on the Countess of Chester Hospital, the place she beforehand labored. 

She was additionally questioned – for what’s believed to be the primary time – about various instances on the Liverpool Girls’s Hospital, the place she beforehand undertook a medical placement as a pupil. 

The 34-year-old former neonatal nurse was convicted in 2023 for murdering seven infants and attempting to kill seven extra whereas working at theCountess of Chester Hospital over a 13-month killing spree between June 2015 and June 2016.

She is at the moment serving a uncommon whole-life sentence after being convicted final yr. Police interviewed her following a assessment of all 4,000 infants she cared for throughout her profession, which dates again to January 2012.

A Cheshire Police spokesperson stated: “We will affirm that, following settlement, Lucy Letby has not too long ago been interviewed in jail below warning in relation to the continued investigation into child deaths and non-fatal collapses on the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Girls’s Hospital. Additional updates will observe.”

Following her conviction final yr, Letby has been serving her sentence at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey, a jail which caters for class A ladies prisoners, which means she is taken into account to be a excessive threat to the general public, police, or nationwide safety if she had been to flee.

It’s understood that the interview was pre-arranged and her authorized consultant was current, studies The Mirror.

Letby, who’s initially from Hereford, was arrested and charged for her crimes again in November 2020, and subsequently convicted final yr of seven costs of homicide and 7 of tried homicide – one youngster she tried to kill twice.  She was additionally later discovered responsible of an eighth tried homicide cost towards one other untimely child lady, following a retrial in July. 

Because of her crimes, she is at the moment serving 15 whole-life sentences and earlier this yr was denied the chance to attraction her convictions, which means she is going to die in jail.

The nurse was on responsibility, or had been working the shift prior, for a complete of 12 out of 13 child deaths that occurred on the Countess of Chester Hospital between March 2015 and July 2016.

The brand new interviews additionally come because the formal Lucy Letby inquiry continues studies the Every day Mail. 

The Thirlwall Inquiry, which started in October, was set as much as look at occasions on the Countess of Chester Hospital and their implications following the trial, and subsequent convictions, of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby of homicide and tried homicide of infants on the hospital.

A number of key witnesses within the inquiry up to now,  embody barrister Louis Browne KC; former Senior Coroner for Cheshire, Alan Moore, and Helene Donnelly, ambassador for cultural change, who beforehand raised considerations at Mid Staffordshire NHS Belief as an NHS whistleblower.