Three former owners of killer nurse latbi arrested

Johnny Humphrees

BBC News, Liverpool

Lucy Latbi was convicted of killing seven children and trying to kill seven more

BBC Lucy Latbi smiles for the camera in a quick photo taken in his career. He has a long -time golden hair in a ponytail and stands in a hospital ward. — Lucy Latbi was convicted of killing seven children and trying to kill seven more

Three former senior staff in the hospital where nurse Lucy Latbi killed seven children and tried to kill seven others, they were suspicious of gross negligence.

All three suspects worked in the senior leadership team in the counties of the Gaster Hospital between 2015 and 2016 and were granted bail after questioning on Monday.

The arrest was taken after an investigation by a possible corporate manual at the hospital, opened in 2023, and then widen in March this year, including gross negligence.

The Cheshire police said that the case has no effect on the 2023 sentence of latebi for murder and attempt to murder.

Latbi, 35, serving 15 entire life sentence After targeting infants in the newborn unit of the hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

Date Cipt Paul Hughes stated that the corporate mangilator element of the investigation focused on the senior leadership of the hospital and its decision making, “to determine whether any criminality has occurred in relation to the response to the rising levels of deadly levels”.

He said that the murder of gross negligence was a separate crime and “focus on the action taken by gross negligence or inactivity of individuals”.

A separate investigation was launched in 2023 under the senior leadership of the hospital after being found guilty.

PA Media a woman and her young daughter, wearing a pink coat, walking to a set of blue doors under a sign reading outside a hospital building — A separate investigation was launched in 2023 under the senior leadership of the hospital after being found guilty.

The Cheshire police said that it was investigating the death and non-fatal collapse of infants at Chester and Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where the latebi trained for the period, was going back in 2012.

Date Cipt Hughes said that there were no “no set timescale” for mangelopter examination.

Latbi has maintained his innocence and his barrister, Mark McDonald has submitted an application to the Review Commission (CCRC) earlier this year.

The application included the findings of 14 medical experts who agreed to re -examine the evidence heard in the test and Concluded that Latbi did not harm any child,

The CCRC, who has the power to refer to the cases back in the appeal court, said it is reviewing the application and no decision.

Lucy Latbi, painted during arrest at her house

The Cheshire Constable Bodyworn camera footage showing Lucy Latbi, who has a long -time golden hair and wearing a blue li cooper branded hoodie, leading from the front door of a house in handcuffs by police officers. — Lucy Latbi, painted during arrest at her house

Last month, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt called for a “immediate re -examination” of latebi case, which he said because of the “serious and reliable” questions raised by the expert panel.

His Conservative Party ally, Sir David Davis, supports efforts to re -look at the case of latebi.

But the lawyers of the families of the families of the victims of Latbi described the findings of the expert panel as “Analytical holes” and the “A rehesh” of the defense case.

A public inquiry under the circumstances around the latest crime is also due to publishing its findings in the beginning of 2026.

Thirwal inquiries heard evidence from the senior leadership team in the hospital when concerns were raised about the increase in infants’ deaths on the newborn unit.

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