Executive headteacher Jonathan Harrison (pictured) and his wife, Lou, jetted off on holiday just hours after mums and dads received confirmation of the senior school's closure.
I sat through almost every day of Letby's two trials at Manchester Crown Court - and subsequent appeals - and admit I was initially impressed by the fanfare from the apparently eminent panel.
It has been claimed that Professor Neena Modi, who was president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2015 to 2018 is not a 'disinterested party' in Letby's case.
Letby's new legal team yesterday unveiled a report which claimed all of the 14 babies murdered or harmed by Letby, 35, were victims of bad medical care and died or collapsed because of natural causes.
EXCLUSIVE: The former neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies, who died between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Cases of medical negligence relating to stillbirths, newborn fatalities and children who later died after being brain damaged during delivery rose by around 16 per cent.