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The Thirlwall Inquiry found that Countess of Chester Hospital's dysfunctional management and failure to invoke safeguarding procedures allowed Lucy Letby to harm infants, with some deaths preventable. The report details Letby's callous behavior and lies, but does not assess her guilt, which remains under review by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
A public inquiry led by Justice Thirlwall has concluded that dysfunctional management at the Countess of Chester Hospital allowed Lucy Letby to continue working after infant deaths spiked. The report notes that while the hospital identified Letby as a potential cause of the deaths in 2016, police were not notified until 2017, allowing her to remain on staff for over a year. Defense attorneys argue the inquiry ignored expert evidence suggesting the deaths were due to medical negligence rather than murder, but Thirlwall dismissed these claims as noise that distressed grieving parents.
Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, dismissed an apology from the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) after it twice turned down his attempts to have his conviction referred to the Court of Appeal. Malkinson, whose conviction was quashed last July after DNA evidence linked another suspect to the crime, felt the apology was "too little too late" and called for new leadership at the CCRC. He had been found guilty of a 2003 rape in Salford, northwest of Manchester, but always maintained his innocence, spending an additional 10 years behind bars before his release in 2020.