Overview
- Lady Justice Thirlwall opened the inquiry by placing the babies who died or were injured and their parents at its center.
- Counsel Rachel Langdale KC said evidence will show a University of Chester lecturer confirms the Beverley Allitt case is included in child nursing teaching taken by Letby.
- Sir Robert Francis KC has been commissioned to review how the NHS responded to the crimes of Allitt and GP Harold Shipman and to assess the follow‑through on prior recommendations.
- Families represented by solicitor Tamlin Bolton are seeking the chance to make submissions and want a stronger enforcement of the NHS duty of candour after not being fully informed at the time.
- Letby is serving whole‑life terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven others in 2015–2016, while Allitt received 13 life sentences and is detained at Rampton Hospital.