{"id":49266,"date":"2025-08-07T01:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49266\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:41:26","slug":"lucy-letby-colleague-wins-legal-case-over-hospital-visits-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49266\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Letby colleague wins legal case over hospital visits probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust then told Dr MN it wanted to investigate him over what he knew about Letby when she visited their hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr MN said the trust breached its employment contract because it wanted to appoint someone other than its chief medical officer to oversee the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge ruled: &#8220;It is a term of Dr MN&#8217;s contract of employment that the case manager should be the medical director, in this case, the chief medical officer, for the matters that are the subject of the present investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Letby, 35, who has always maintained her innocence, lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, is reviewing her convictions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, prosecutors revealed they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yl273mlryo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considering bringing further charges against her<\/a> following the deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at hospitals where she worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust then told Dr MN it wanted to investigate him over what he knew about Letby when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-49266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}