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An obstetrician, Dr Jim McCormack, has testified that he was asked to apologise to Lucy Letby by hospital bosses over claims that he called her a murderer more than two years before she was arrested in 2018. According to Dr McCormack, he was part of a meeting between medics and senior nursing staff in response to the unexpected deaths of two triplets at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in June 2016. Dr McCormack explained that neonatal lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey revealed a concern that a nurse was causing intentional harm to babies upon the unit, leading him to ask whether he was suggesting that a nurse was a murderer to which Dr Brearey confirmed “Yes”.
In his testimony at the Thirlwall Inquiry, Dr McCormack denied naming Lucy Letby and stated that he did not know who she was until seven months later when he was asked to apologise to her. He claimed that he had never been informed that concerns had been raised about his remarks, and was shocked to receive a phone call from medical director Ian Harvey asking him to meet and make an apology to Letby after his reported remark had been documented in an HR report related to a grievance procedure Letby filed over her removal from the neonatal unit. The inquiry had already heard that seven consultants had already signed a joint letter of apology to Letby and that she had continued working at the Countess of Chester until her arrest in July 2018.
Dr McCormack added in his testimony that he did not feel he should have to send the apology letter to Letby, and was surprised by its acceptance, as he had “not actually apologised for calling her a murderer”. The inquiry is examining how the nurse was able to murder and attack babies at the hospital. Letby, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016. The inquiry is expected to sit at Liverpool Town Hall until early next year, with findings published by late autumn 2025
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