Latest news with #grossnegligencemanslaughter
Daily Mail
15-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Mark Gordon's 1989 rape victim recounts horrific four-hour ordeal on new Mail podcast
Following Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's convictions for gross negligence manslaughter, the Mail has released a series of exclusive podcasts revealing never-before-heard details about the couple. The first episode of this Trial Plus series examines Gordon's criminal past and includes exclusive interviews with victims of his violent crimes committed as a teenager in Florida. In 1989, a 14-year-old Gordon was sentenced to life in prison for the rape of his neighbour at knifepoint while her two children slept next door, and for later attacking another neighbour with a shovel. Gordon was charged with multiple serious offences including armed kidnapping, five counts of armed sexual battery, two counts of armed burglary, and one count of aggravated burglary. Due to him being a minor, Gordon's original life sentence was reduced to 40 years, of which he only served 20 before being deported to the UK. To this day, Gordon denies responsibility for the attacks, claiming his confession was forced. Speaking to veteran crime journalists Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy, Gordon's victim - whose identity remains anonymous - described her horrific ordeal. She recounted: 'My dog woke me up, barking. I go over to my bedroom door and stepped out, and he was standing right there in the living room. 'He was holding a knife and a big pair of hedge clippers. I started to yell, and he said, don't scream or I'll kill your kids. 'He forced me to perform oral sex on him and there was penetrative sex. He was mostly ordering me around. 'I kept trying to talk to him, to reason with him, and to try and find out if there was anything else I could give him to get him to leave. 'I offered him my car, not realising he was so young. I kept thinking, I have to find a way to live, because my kids were in that other room. It was survival.' After being deported to the UK in 2010, Gordon was required to register as a sex offender and report to police weekly until meeting Constance Marten in a London incense shop in 2015. The Crime Desk: The Mail's new true crime podcast network, available on all major podcast platforms The couple went on to have five children together, but four were taken into care after a 2019 incident where a pregnant Marten fell from a first-floor window with a ruptured spleen - an incident the family court deemed domestic violence despite the couple's denials. On Monday, Gordon and Marten were convicted of killing their daughter, Victoria, after going on the run to stop her being taken into care. They will be sentenced on September 15. Speaking exclusively to The Trial podcast, former Assistant District Attorney David Hodge described his experience prosecuting a 14-year-old Gordon for his sexually motivated attacks. Hodge described it as 'one of the most heinous crimes' his team had ever prosecuted, stressing the lasting emotional damage inflicted on the mother-of-two. 'I met the victim', the lawyer said. 'She described to me what had happened, and it was absolutely terrifying… the incident itself was brutal. How could somebody be that evil? 'He was inside her house in the wee hours of the morning for hours while her children slept. 'She was frightened the whole time that one of her kids would wake up and see what was going on with mummy, that they would be harmed, that they would get stabbed or in some other way come to harm. 'That dominated her thoughts, and she couldn't get it out of her head.' The former District Attorney told the podcast that he had been the one that pushed for Gordon to receive a life sentence. He remembered: 'I determined that the plea offer would be nothing less than life. 'The public defender's office told me that I needed to grow up and give them a reasonable offer. I told them that was our offer – you don't have to take it; you can go to trial. 'The judge listened to the testimony of the victim and the testimony of the accused… I believe there was also an expert witness on my side who worked for the Child Protection team. 'He drilled into me that, as far as the accused went, the greatest predictor of his future behaviour was his past behaviour, and that has stuck with me.' To listen to full exclusive with David Hodge and hear a complete criminal history of child killer Mark Gordon, subscribe to The Crime Desk, the home of arresting podcasts from The Daily Mail.
ABC News
01-07-2025
- Health
- ABC News
Senior staff at English hospital where Lucy Letby worked arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter
Three senior managers at the hospital where former nurse Lucy Letby murdered babies have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Letby, 35, is serving life in jail after being found guilty of murdering seven newborns and attempting to murder eight more between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England. The nurse has maintained her innocence throughout but has been refused permission to appeal against her convictions. She has been told she will never be released. Following the trial, British police began to investigate possible corporate manslaughter offences at the hospital, an inquiry that was later widened to consider if individuals might be guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes, who is leading the investigation, said three unnamed members of the hospital's senior leadership team were arrested on Monday, local time. They have since been released on police bail pending further inquires. "Both the corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter elements of the investigation are continuing and there are no set timescales for these," Mr Hughes said in a statement. He added that the police investigation into whether Letby had committed more crimes at the hospital and at another unit where she had previously worked was ongoing. Cheshire Police said the case did not have any impact on Letby's 2023 convictions for murder and attempted murder. Letby, who testified that she never harmed a child, has continued to proclaim her innocence, and support for her has grown as legal and scientific experts have questioned the circumstantial and statistical evidence used at her trial. A panel of international medical experts disputed the evidence against her and her lawyer said she was wrongly convicted. A judge who oversaw a public inquiry seeking accountability of staff and management at the hospital was expected to publish her findings later this year. Justice Kathryn Thirlwall said at the outset of the inquiry that she would not review Letby's conviction, but would take a deeper look into how failures led to babies being repeatedly harmed at the hospital. As that inquiry was underway earlier this year, an independent panel of more than a dozen medical experts issued a report that found no sign of a crime and concluded natural causes or bad medical care led to the demise of each of the newborns. "In summary, then, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders," Dr Shoo Lee, a retired neonatologist from Canada, said at a London news conference in February. Letby's lawyers and three former executives at the hospital unsuccessfully petitioned Judge Thirlwall to halt the public inquiry after the medical panel released its findings. Letby, who lost two bids to appeal her convictions, now has her case before the Criminal Case Review Commission, which reviews possible miscarriages of justice, which could lead to another shot at an appeal. The Crown Prosecution Service has said two juries have convicted Letby and three appellate judges have rejected her arguments that the prosecution expert evidence is flawed. Reuters/AP
ABC News
01-07-2025
- Health
- ABC News
Three bosses at UK hospital where Lucy Letby worked arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter
Three senior managers from the hospital where former nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering babies worked, have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, British police said. Letby, 35, is serving life in jail after being found guilty of murdering seven newborns and attempting to murder eight more between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England. The nurse has maintained her innocence throughout but has been refused permission to appeal against her convictions. She has been told she will never be released. Following the trial, police began to investigate possible corporate manslaughter offences at the hospital, an inquiry that was later widened to consider if individuals might be guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes, who is leading the investigation, said three unnamed members of the hospital's senior leadership team had been arrested on Monday local time. They have subsequently been released on police bail pending further inquires. "Both the corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter elements of the investigation are continuing and there are no set timescales for these," Mr Hughes said in a statement. He added that the police investigation into whether Letby had committed more crimes at the hospital and at another unit where she had previously worked was ongoing. Cheshire Police said the case does not have any impact on Letby's 2023 convictions for murder and attempted murder. Letby, who testified that she never harmed a child, has continued to proclaim her innocence and support for her has grown as legal and scientific experts have questioned the circumstantial and statistical evidence used at her trial. A panel of international medical experts disputed the evidence against her and her lawyer said she was wrongly convicted. A judge who oversaw a public inquiry seeking accountability of staff and management at the hospital is expected to publish her findings this fall. Justice Kathryn Thirlwall said at the outset of the inquiry that she would not review Letby's conviction, but take a deeper look into how failures led babies to repeatedly be harmed at the hospital. As that inquiry was underway earlier this year, an independent panel of more than a dozen medical experts issued a report that found no sign of a crime and concluded natural causes or bad medical care led to the demise of each of the newborns. "In summary, then, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders," Dr Shoo Lee, a retired neonatologist from Canada, said at a London news conference in February. Letby's lawyers and three former executives at the hospital unsuccessfully petitioned Judge Thirlwall to halt the public inquiry after the medical panel released its findings. Letby, who lost two bids to appeal her convictions, now has her case before the Criminal Case Review Commission, which reviews possible miscarriages of justice and could lead to one another shot at an appeal. The Crown Prosecution Service has said two juries convicted Letby and three appellate judges had rejected her arguments that the prosecution expert evidence was flawed. Reuters/AP
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Three members of Lucy Letby hospital's senior leadership team arrested
Three managers at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. They were in senior roles at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016 and have been bailed pending further enquiries, Cheshire Constabulary said. Their names have not been made public. , 35, was found guilty of murdering seven children and attempting to murder seven more between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in the hospital's neonatal unit. Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes explained that gross negligent manslaughter focuses on the "action or inaction of individuals". There is also an investigation into corporate manslaughter at the hospital, which began in October 2023. That focuses on "senior leadership and their decision-making", Mr Hughes said. The intention there is to determine whether any "criminality has taken place concerning the response to the increased levels of fatalities". The scope was widened to include gross negligence manslaughter in March of this year. Mr Hughes said it is "important to note" that this latest development "does not impact on the convictions of Lucy Letby for multiple offences of murder and attempted murder". He added: "Both the corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter elements of the investigation are continuing and there are no set timescales for these. "Our investigation into the deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the neo-natal units of both the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women's Hospital between the period of 2012 to 2016 is also ongoing." Read more from Sky News: Earlier this year, lawyers for Lucy Letby called for the suspension of the inquiry into the events surrounding her crimes, claiming there was that her convictions were unsafe. In February, an international panel of neonatologists and paediatric specialists told reporters that poor medical care and natural causes were the reasons for the collapses and deaths. Their evidence has been passed to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, and Letby's legal team hopes her case will be referred back to the Court of Appeal.
BreakingNews.ie
01-07-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Gross negligence manslaughter arrests following Lucy Letby baby deaths
Three people who were part of the senior leadership team at the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Cheshire Constabulary said the suspects, who occupied senior positions at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016, were arrested on Monday. Advertisement All three have since been bailed pending further inquiries, the force added. Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders. Photo: Cheshire Constabulary/PA. Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016. Police said corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter probes are continuing.
