Staff at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked could face criminal prosecution for alleged “gross negligence”, police confirmed on Thursday night.The former neonatal nurse, 35, is serving 15 whole life terms in prison after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder a further six while working at the Countess of Chester hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

A criminal probe into the hospital where Lucy Letby attacked babies has been widened to focus on individual staff, police have said. Cheshire Police said it opened a corporate manslaughter investigation at the Countess of Chester Hospital in October 2023,

British police said on Thursday they had widened an investigation into manslaughter at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of killing seven babies, had worked.

Staff at the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked could face gross negligence manslaughter charges, police have said. Cheshire Constabulary said suspects had been identified and notified in connection to the probe into baby deaths between 2012 and 2016.