Lucy Letby was “likely” to have harmed more babies than those she has been convicted of murdering on a hospital neonatal unit, a senior doctor has told a public inquiry. Dr Stephen Brearey, a consultant paediatrician who raised concerns about the nurse, told the Thirlwall inquiry he believed Letby “didn’t start becoming a killer” in June 2015 and that she may have had earlier victims. “The incidents occurring in the indictment period and before the indictment period were babies deteriorating that should have triggered an incident,” he said. “On reflection it’s likely that Letby didn’t start becoming a killer in
