An ex-junior doctor who became close to Lucy Letby when they both worked at the same hospital has said he was "misled" and "maybe manipulated" by the nurse. The former registrar, referred to as Doctor U, said he was tricked into giving her information about babies she had attacked.

"I walked into his office, sat down with him and he (Mr Harvey) said: 'You are going to have to make an apology to Lucy Letby.' "Now, I didn't even know who Lucy Letby was. At that meeting of the paediatricians Steve Brearey didn't say the name of the person,

Medic says Letby ‘misled and maybe manipulated’ him into giving her information - The public inquiry heard he swapped 1,355 Facebook messages with the nurse in a three-month period when they worked together.