Suspect is one of three ex-senior leaders also arrested last year on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter
A former boss at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Police arrested the suspect on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of gross negligence manslaughter by former senior leaders at the Countess of Chester hospital.
Unusually, Cheshire constabulary declined to confirm the age or gender of the person arrested. However, the force confirmed that they were one of the three former hospital bosses arrested last June on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Letby, 36, is serving a whole-life prison sentence after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven others in the year to June 2016. The former neonatal nurse denies the allegations and is seeking to challenge the convictions through the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which can refer potential miscarriages of justice to the court of appeal to be reviewed.
