"Married father-of-two Mark Deakin exchanged hundreds of messages with Lucy Letby and put her first over patients, the inquiry found
Letby murdered seven babies and tried to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016
Lady Justice Thirlwall was chairman of the inquiry into the deaths and found there had been a 'complete failure' to protect babies at the hospital
Lady Justice Thirlwall disagreed that the incident was a 'collective failure', stating: 'It was a failure by the doctor who was responsible for caring for Baby L at the time, namely Dr [Deakin].'
The following month, Dr Deakin attended a meeting about the deaths of two babies."
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