Lucy Letby's hospital chairman was chief executive of NHS England during Angel of Death Beverley Allitt murders

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The chairman of the hospital at the time Lucy Letby carried out her killing spree was the chief executive of NHS England at the time of the 'Angel of Death' Beverley Allitt murders.

The chief executive of NHS England – effectively the NHS’ most senior leader – from 1989 to 1994 was Sir Duncan Nichol. While working as a paediatric nurse at a Lincolnshire hospital, serial killer Beverley Allitt murdered four infants, attempted to murder three others, and caused grievous bodily harm to six more in 1991.

The chairman of the Countess of Chester Hospital from 2012, leading the trust during the period of Letby’s killings, was coincidentally the same man, Sir Duncan Nichol.

He retired from the NHS in 2019, a year after killer nurse Letby was arrested following a series of unexplained baby deaths on the neonatal unit where she worked. J oin our WhatsAp p Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link . He has since said the board were 'misled' about Letby, claiming the board had been 'told explicitly that there was no criminal activity pointing to any one individual' after reviews of the baby deaths were carried out in 2016.