Lucy Letby’s parents went to police before they began officially investigating baby deaths to complain about hospital doctors making her a ‘scapegoat’, it has emerged.

The child killer’s father, John, 80, visited a police station half a mile from his daughter’s Chester home in March 2017 – two months before the police inquiry into the spike in infant deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital was launched.

It is not thought Letby, an only child, accompanied him on the visit.

Read more: Lucy Letby’s parents went to the police first to put her name in the frame, saying she was being made a scapegoat