Kim Pilling
UK
Kate joins celebration as young mother marks end of chemotherapy treatment
The ceremony came as a welcome surprise for patient Claire Lorente, her partner Pablo and son Enzo.
By Kim Pilling
4 Jun 2026
Crime
Medic says Letby ‘misled and maybe manipulated’ him into giving her information
The public inquiry heard he swapped 1,355 Facebook messages with the nurse in a three-month period when they worked together.
By Kim Pilling
7 Oct 2024
Crime
Doctor tells Letby inquiry she ‘should have flagged’ concerns
A consultant paediatrician gave evidence to the panel investigating the nurse’s crimes.
By Kim Pilling
7 Oct 2024
Crime
Consultants’ concerns over Letby should have led to calling police – inquiry
Dr Elizabeth Newby was giving evidence at the Thirlwall Inquiry into events at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
By Kim Pilling
3 Oct 2024
Crime
Nurses checked rotas for ‘common denominator’, Letby inquiry hears
Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others.
By Kim Pilling
2 Oct 2024
UK
Police name eight-year-old boy shot dead at farm
Emergency services were called at around 2.50pm on Saturday to the property near the A66, north of Warcop, Cumbria.
By Kim Pilling
30 Sept 2024
Crime
Formal steps needed to deal with suspected NHS ‘bad apples’, Letby inquiry told
An expert witness told the Thirlwall Inquiry the challenges of not identifying them were illustrated by the Harold Shipman and Beverley Allitt cases.
By Kim Pilling
26 Sept 2024
Crime
NHS duty of candour ‘certainly not honoured’ by Letby hospital – parents
The deaths of Child O and Child P on successive days in 2016 led to the removal of the nurse from the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.
By Kim Pilling
25 Sept 2024
Crime
Hospital bosses who ignored Letby concerns were ‘complicit’, says mother
Child N’s mother told a public inquiry ‘nothing effective’ had been done by NHS authorities since the crimes of Beverley Allitt and Harold Shipman.
By Kim Pilling
24 Sept 2024
Music
Beatles contract for Hamburg residency set to fetch up to £30,000
The Beatles played the opening night of a new club which had a capacity for 2,000 people.
By Kim Pilling
21 Sept 2024
Crime
Bosses at Countess of Chester Hospital ‘facilitated a mass murderer’
Child I’s mother told inquiry chair Lady Thirlwall that senior management should face sanctions if they ignore concerns raised by whistleblowers.
By Kim Pilling
19 Sept 2024
Crime
Mother of twins targeted by Lucy Letby ‘carries the sadness of other families’
The mother of Child E and Child F told the Thirlwall Inquiry she learnt the full details of both incidents at Letby’s criminal trial.
By Kim Pilling
18 Sept 2024
Crime
CCTV would have prevented Letby from killing my baby, mother tells inquiry
Child killer nurse Lucy Letby attacked Child D three times in the early hours of June 22 2015 at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit
By Kim Pilling
17 Sept 2024
Crime
Mother of baby boy murdered by Lucy Letby demands face-to-face apology
She said her family had ‘endured years of anxiety and stress’ from the initial arrest of Letby to her convictions.
By Kim Pilling
16 Sept 2024
Crime
‘Shared responsibility’ keeping babies safe, hospital managers tell Letby probe
Nurse Lucy Letby, 34, is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more.
By Kim Pilling
13 Sept 2024
Crime
Breathing tubes dislodged during Lucy Letby shifts prior to killings, probe told
The incidents took place on 40% of the shifts Letby worked as a trainee in Liverpool, the Thirlwall Inquiry heard.
By Kim Pilling
12 Sept 2024
Crime
‘Five basic failures’ at hospital where Lucy Letby worked
The Thirlwall Inquiry is examining how the nurse was able to carry out a string of baby deaths in the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester Hospital
By Kim Pilling
12 Sept 2024
Crime
Baby deaths rise concerns ‘not discussed at board level until after Letby spree’
Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others.
By Kim Pilling
11 Sept 2024UK11 Sept 2024
Junior doctors referred to Lucy Letby as 'Nurse Death'
A public inquiry is looking into the circumstances around Letby’s crimes
Crime
Lucy Letby visited Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, inquiry told
The inquiry into events surrounding the former nurse’s crimes is taking place at Liverpool Town Hall.
By Kim Pilling
10 Sept 2024
Crime
Case of killer nurse Beverly Allitt was part of Lucy Letby’s training, inquiry told
Allitt, who was convicted of four counts of murdering children, and killer GP Harold Shipman were referenced as the inquiry opened.
By Kim Pilling
10 Sept 2024