When a brown envelope landed on Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes' desk, back in May 2017, he never imagined that, more than six years later, it would lead to the conviction of Britain's most prolific child serial killer.Back then, the detective, who was head of the major investigation team at Cheshire police's western syndicate, was simply asked by his boss to look into whether there was anything concerning about an unexplained spike in deaths of premature babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, which was on his patch.Several reviews had already been conducted by the hospital, by experts from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and by an independent neonatologist and a KC, but they had found no medical cause for the elevated mortality on the neo-natal unit in 2015 and 2016.
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