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Lucy Letby may have harmed more babies in her care, new evidence suggests

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BBC One's Panorama has seen documents which suggest a third baby may have also been poisoned.

Medical records reveal the infant’s blood sugar level plummeted and lab results indicated he had suspiciously high levels of insulin.

Panorama also discovered that potentially life-threatening incidents involving infants occurred on almost a third of Letby ’s 33 shifts while she was training at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015 .

The former nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others - including trying to kill two with insulin at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016 .

In August 2023 , the 33-year-old was sentenced to.

Panorama has spoken to leading experts on all sides of this debate.

The programme found circumstances in which interference might occur are very unlikely in the context of the babies in the Letby case.

It is even more unlikely that three lab tests conducted within months of each other would all be wrong.

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74

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38

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semi-formal

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