A “whistleblower” at the hospital trust where Lucy Letby worked has won a 1.4m payout after a judge ruled that she was bullied out of her job.
Dr Susan Gilby became the chief executive at the Countess of Chester Hospital in September 2018, two months after Letby was first arrested, the Liverpool tribunal was told.
Dr Gilby, a consultant anaesthetist, told the tribunal that despite navigating the Covid pandemic and improving the running of the hospital, she encountered difficulties when Ian Haythornthwaite, a former BBC accountant, became the chairman of its board in 2021.
She claimed she was “harassed and intimidated” by Mr Haythornthwaite, and accused him of putting the financial security of the hospital before patient care.
She later “blew the whistle” as a result of her concerns about him and was suspended before eventually resigning from her job in 2022.
Last February, an employment tribunal found that she had been unfairly dismissed.
On Thursday, she told the BBC she had been awarded 1.4m in damages, adding that she was relieved the case was over and it was “never about the money”.
She told the hearing that, in 2022, Mr Haythornthwaite launched a “fierce verbal attack” on her, during which he “banged his hand on the table” to emphasise the things he claimed were wrong with her, according to Mail Online.
She said his alleged behaviour was “bullying, pure and simple”, adding that the board was obsessed with imposing cuts at the hospital, which...
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