Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
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Detectives have revealed their investigation into Lucy Letby is continuing as they probe other unexplained baby collapses during her nursing career.
After Letby, 33, was convicted of seven infant murders and attempting to murder six other babies, the senior detectives in charge of the investigation revealed the case remains open.
As part of the investigation, officers are reviewing 4,000 admissions of babies while Letby was on training placement at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in 2012 and 2015.
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They are also looking at further unexplained collapses at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit where she worked from 2010 as a student nurse.
Police stress they are at the early stage of a complex ongoing investigation, dubbed Operation Hummingbird.
As they did with the cases that went to court, police will commission medical experts to review any evidence gathered.
After Letby was convicted, the senior investigating officer, Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes told the media: “This indictment and this trial covers the period 2015/16. We obviously are committed to a thorough investigation across the entire footprint that Letby’s been employed at the Countess of Chester Hospital and on placements at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. And, as you would expect us to do, to conduct a thorough investigation.
“That investigation is ongoing and the cases that have been identified so far, the families have been contacted and are being supported and will be given an update on that particular part of the investigation when we can.”
He confirmed detectives are investigating ‘some events’ at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in 2012 and in 2015 although these
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