Lucy Letby’s ‘boyfriend’ who died after he was sacked as doctor named

Mark Deakin died last month in Liverpool (Picture: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) A doctor described during the trial of Lucy Letby as her ‘boyfriend’ has been named and pictured for the first time after he died on the anniversary of the serial killer nurse’s arrest. Married father-of-two Mark Deakin, 53, died last month shortly after he was sacked from his job at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. He had been sacked over messages swapped with Letby about one of the babies she would go on to try and kill, according to the Daily Mail. Letby, who is serving her lengthy sentence at HMP Bronzefield, had exchanged thousands of messages with Deakin, calling him her ‘best friend’ and ‘love’. In June, Deakin was found collapsed in his car at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside.