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Senior doctors demanded installation of CCTV if Lucy Letby returned to nursing duties, trial hears

Senior doctors demanded the installation of CCTV cameras at a hospital unit if Lucy Letby was allowed to return to nursing duties, her murder trial has heard. Concerns over an “accumulating number of inexplicable collapses” reached a “tipping point” with the deaths of two newborn triplets in June 2016, a consultant told Manchester Crown Court.

Dr John Gibbs told jurors that a number of “key safety measures” were then introduced including the removal of Letby from the neonatal unit. However a month later he said hospital bosses wanted Letby – whom the consultants had identified as “the common link” to the collapses – back on the unit.

He told the court: “We said that should only happen if CCTV was put in each room in the unit. The CCTV didn’t come and neither did staff nurse Letby."

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Dr Gibbs, now retired, went on: “In the 11 months before the police got involved, after we raised concerns about the deaths of (Child O and Child P), senior management were extremely reluctant to involve the police to discuss what had happened because we had to keep insisting the police be involved.”

Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others on the neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016. She is said to have administered fatal doses of air to both Child O and P on successive day shifts.

Dr Gibbs reviewed Child P’s condition shortly after the death of Child O on June 23. He told the court: “‘I remember feeling uncomfortable when I arrived on the unit and saw (Child O) and I thought ‘Oh no, not another one’.

"I’d become increasingly concerned, and my consultant colleagues shared the concerns, at the

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