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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A former boss at the hospital where Lucy Letby killed seven babies has 'a get out of jailfree card' after retiring to the South of France with a £1.8million pension, the parents of one of her victims fear. They want to see ex-medical director Ian Harvey questioned over claims that he could have stopped Letby’s killing spree sooner if he had acted on warnings from senior doctors, The Mirror reports.
The parents – who have not been named – said: "Retiring should not be a get-out-of-jail-free card to distance himself from his failures to act. It appears he has left the sinking ship with the buoyancy aid of a large NHS pension.
"This is why we fully support a statutory public inquiry, so we can get the answers we deserve." Mr Harvey, 65, earned up to £175,000 at Countess of Chester Hospital, where Letby murdered seven babies on the neonatal unit.
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He took early retirement in 2018, shortly after her arrest, and has been accused by senior consultants of failing to act on fears over the nurse – now Britain’s worst serial child killer. Last weekend, we revealed the former chief executive of the hospital at the time of Letby’s killing had also walked away from the NHS, retiring earlier this year with a £1.5million pension.
Mr Harvey now lives with his wife more than 800 miles from the hospital in a farmhouse in the Dordogne boasting a swimming pool and stables. A former colleague has claimed: “Around the time he retired, I asked Harvey whether he thought there could be a public inquiry into what happened and his words were, ‘They would have to find me first’, which bothered me.
"He seemed to be implying he would be long gone. The
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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