I'm not trying to be awkward here but the consultants did not prove beyond doubt that any baby had been murdered, rather they raised concerns.
As I've said cases like this repulse me so I've not delved into the detail as I normally would but I assume at the time that either no autopsies were done on the babies or they were not looking in the right places at the autopsies...
During the course of their investigation officers discovered two baby boys, from separate sets of twins, had been 'deliberately' poisoned with insulin eight months apart.
The results of their blood tests had been missed by doctors who had no idea there was a 'poisoner at work'.It seems in was the doctors 'words' against Letby - not proof.
After raising their concerns about Letby, a group of doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital were advised by bosses to apologise to her or face a possible referral to the General Medical Council. Of course the doctors should have been listened to, the first concern of the management is to their patients NOT the disruption that might have followed...
Hospital executives are alleged to have doctors they would face 'blue and white tape' all over the ward if they followed their suggestion of calling police.
I don't know the protocols in hospitals but it seems to me the hospital management simply didn't believe there was a murderer killing babies in their hospital (just coincidence that the deaths occurred when Letby was around them) - I mean it is pretty hard to believe in reality isn't it (not to trivialise this but to put it in to some context, I've been telling everyone on here for over three years that Wanderlust has been lying and no one believed me about that - and that's just telling fibs on the internet not killing loads of babies!) - and there was too much 'red tape' to deal with (possibly legal action suing the Trust from Letby to face) if they called the police in and nothing untoward was found.
That dilemma needs to be removed from now on where by staff can be moved from posts and suspended and the Truss be exempted from any legal action against it in the case of nothing untoward being found.
As I say I have no idea of hospital protocols but it seems to me that there was no actions taken by the doctors/management/whoever (maybe the parents have to give permission?) to do a full autopsy on the 'suspicious' deaths as presumably the poisoning that occurred on at least two of the babies would have been found sooner?
I'm sure there will be loads of other safeguards to come out of this as well.