Cheshire police have interviewed Lucy Letby in jail beneath warning over the alleged murders of extra infants she cared for.

Letby, a former neonatal nurse on the Countess of Chester hospital was convicted of murdering seven infants and trying to homicide six others, with two makes an attempt on the lifetime of one in every of her victims, in August 2023.

She was subsequently discovered responsible of an eighth tried homicide cost following a retrial in July this yr.

Police started a evaluate of the 4,000 infants she nursed throughout her profession, which dates again to January 2012 and consists of two coaching placements she carried out on the Liverpool Girls’s hospital as a pupil nurse.

It’s understood she was questioned for the primary time about circumstances on the latter hospital, in addition to child deaths and collapses on the Countess of Chester hospital.

Cheshire police stated on Tuesday: “We are able to verify that, following settlement, Lucy Letby has just lately been interviewed in jail beneath warning in relation to the continued investigation into child deaths and non-fatal collapses on the Countess of Chester hospital and the Liverpool Girls’s Hospital. Additional updates will comply with.”

Police wouldn’t inform the Day by day Mail precisely when the interview passed off or what number of particular circumstances Letby – one in every of solely 4 girls sentenced to a whole-life time period in UK authorized historical past – was questioned about.

Sources have informed the Mail that any prices, if they’re introduced, gained’t be laid till “properly into the brand new yr”.

The Guardian was unable to succeed in Cheshire police for a remark.

Letby is serving a whole-life sentence for her crimes in HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey.

The interview was pre-arranged and her authorized consultant was current, based on the Mail.

The Thirlwall public inquiry is trying into the occasions surrounding Letby’s crimes. It’s anticipated to take a seat at Liverpool city corridor till early 2025, with findings as a consequence of be printed by late autumn subsequent yr.

Final month, Dr Stephen Brearey, a guide paediatrician who raised issues in regards to the nurse informed the Thirlwall inquiry he believed Letby “didn’t begin changing into a killer” in June 2015 and that she could have had earlier victims.