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Letby case ‘has echoes’ of wrongly accused Canadian nurse, says expert

The Lucy Letby case bears striking similarities to a Canadian nurse wrongly accused of poisoning babies, an eminent neonatologist has said.

Dr Desmond Bohn, who spent 35 years as a paediatric intensive care specialist, was working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto when nurse Susan Nelles was blamed for the deaths of four infants in her care.

Between June 1980 and March 1981, there was an alarming increase in cardiac deaths on two neonatal wards at the hospital.

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