POLL: Should hospital bosses who turned blind eye to Lucy Letby concerns face prison?

Lucy Letby refused to face her victims’ families in court on Monday as she was handed a whole-life sentence for her crimes.

The former neonatal nurse worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital where she killed seven babies and attempted to murder another six between 2015 and 2016.

Evidence presented at trial showed several consultants at the neonatal unit raised concerns about Letby in 2015, but she carried on working at the hospital until after the deaths of two triplet babies and the collapse of another baby in June 2016.

Head consultant Dr Stephen Brearey was one of the doctors on the ward who raised the alarm about Letby. Speaking to BBC Panorama about whether her crimes were concealed, he said: “I don’t know how you define a cover-up, but to us, the evidence in front of us was quite clear, it felt like they’d tried to engineer a narrative, some way out of this which didn’t involve police.

“If you want to call that a cover-up, then that’s a cover-up.”

The prosecution’s key medical expert, Dr Dewi Evans, told the Observer that the hospital’s management should be investigated.

He said: “They were grossly negligent. I shall write to Cheshire Police and ask them, from what I have heard following the end of the trial, that I believe that we should now investigate a number of managerial people in relation to issues of corporate manslaughter.”

It raises key questions over whether enough was done to stop the murders taking place and if some of the deaths could have been prevented had bosses acted sooner.

But what do you think? Should hospital bosses face a prison sentence for not doing enough to stop Letby carrying out her crimes? Vote in our poll.