Consultant tells court that fear of reprisal from management stopped him reporting Letby to police

A consultant paediatrician has told a court that he discovered the nurse Lucy Letby doing nothing to intervene when a baby was deteriorating but failed to report her to police because he feared retribution from management.Letby, 34, a former neonatal nurse, is on trial for the attempted murder of a premature baby girl, Baby K, hours after her birth in February 2016. The consultant, Ravi Jayaram, told Manchester Crown Court of his “infinite regret” that he did not report Letby to police.She was convicted last year of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016, receiving a life sentence without parole.1 But that jury was unable to reach a verdict on the allegation of attempted murder involving Baby K.Jayaram told the court that by February 2016 he and other senior doctors had begun to think that…
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