# ‘We should have escalated matters earlier’, Lucy Letby doctor says

https://mins.news/en/video/61674

- BBC News, 2026-09-16 21:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxw_ENv2_94

> Consultant paediatrician John Gibbs, who tried to alert managers at Countess of Chester Hospital about concerns over Lucy Letby, says he wishes he and colleagues had pursued their suspicions and contacted police sooner. Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to murder seven more on the neonatal unit in 2015-16.

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