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Parents of baby killed by Lucy Letby say they got a ‘total fob off’ from hospital
Exclusive: after newborn son was murdered, family say repeated calls to Countess of Chester’s medical director were unanswered'a bereaved family accused the hospital of “a total fob off” when they pleaded for answers.
The parents, whose newborn son was murdered and his twin poisoned, said they tried repeatedly to meet the hospital’s medical director but their calls went unanswered.
Richard Scorer, a solicitor at the law firm Slater and Gordon, which represents the family, said it was “shameful” that the medical director, Ian Harvey, had failed to respond properly to the parents’ concerns.
He told the Guardian: “It seems that Ian Harvey had little interest in passing any meaningful information to the parents, responding properly to any of their concerns, or complying with any duty of candour to them.'
The parents of twins, who can only be named as Child E and Child F, on Tuesday added to the growing calls for the inquiry to be made statutory so it could compel witnesses to testify under oath.
Scorer, the head of abuse and public inquiries at Slater and Gordon, said the family made “many attempts” to contact Harvey for answers about why Child E died and his twin brother deteriorated in August 2015 – but that “despite many attempts to get through to him they never received a return call”.
Harvey's response is quoted at the link
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Parents of baby killed by Lucy Letby say they got a ‘total fob off’ from hospital
Exclusive: after newborn son was murdered, family say repeated calls to Countess of Chester’s medical director were unanswered
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