Doctors suspected a “bug” was causing deaths and collapses on the ward where Lucy Letby worked, an inquiry heard. Dr Elizabeth Newby, who worked on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital, said she was worried there may have been a “bug” on the ward, or contaminated equipment causing the deaths and collapses of infants.

A senior doctor has told a public inquiry that he is “ashamed” that he failed to protect babies from harm by serial killer nurse Lucy Letby.

Consultant paediatrician Dr John Gibbs told the public inquiry into Lucy Letby's crimes that he 'deeply regrets' failing to protect the babies from harm by killer nurse.

A doctor has blamed senior nurses for extending Lucy Letby’s time on the neonatal ward by closing ranks around her. The Thirlwall Inquiry into Letby is hearing from Dr John Gibbs, a paediatrician who worked at the Countess of Chester during the years she was a nurse on the neonatal unit.

Dr Rachel Lambie told the Thirlwall Inquiry at the Countess of Chester Hospital she was "shocked" to hear neonatal nurses were "thinking the unthinkable"

A doctor has told the public inquiry into Lucy Letby’s crimes that he felt "ashamed" for "failing to protect" babies from the former nurse. Consultant paediatrician Dr John Gibbs, now retired, was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital when Letby began attacking vulnerable babies on the neonatal unit in June 2015.