Neonatal nurse who allegedly murdered seven babies, including twins, was a 'poisoner at work'

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A hospital nurse accused of the murder of seven babies - and attempted murder of 10 more - was a "poisoner at work", a jury has heard.

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Lucy Letby, who had specialist training in care for the sickest babies at the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester, is alleged to have gone on a year-long killing spree while working there. She is charged with attacking - and in some instances murdering - sets of twins, as well as attempting to murder the same children more than once.

Letby's parents were in the public gallery. (File pic) ©PA

Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, denies all 22 charges - which concern 17 babies. She denies murdering five boys and two girls and attempting to murder another five boys and five girls between June 2015 and June 2016.

The trial heard that one set of twins were among her alleged murder victims. Opening the prosecution case on Monday at Manchester Crown Court, Nick Johnson KC described the hospital as one "like so many others in the UK, but unlike many other hospitals in the UK and unlike many other neonatal units in the UK, within the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester a poisoner was at work", he said.

After the infant mortality rate saw a "significant rise", consultants found "one common denominator", which was the presence of Letby. The court was shown a graphic which outlined all the nurses on shift at the time the different incidents took place. Only Letby was on shift when all the babies were harmed.

Child A was allegedly murdered by Letby on 8 June 2015, shortly after he - and his twin sister, Child B - were born. None of the children involved are being named for legal reasons. Despite being premature, he was born in "good condition" and on 8 June he was described in his medical notes as breathing "in air" - meaning he didn't need extra oxygen, but by 8.26pm that same day he was "deteriorating rapidly". He had been handed over to Letby's care less-than half-an-hour previously.

By 9pm, he had been pronounced dead. Letby had started her shift less than 90 minutes earlier, at 7.30pm. Two doctors concluded his death was most likely caused by an injection of air into either his umbilical venous catheter (UVC) or his long line. About 28 hours after Child A had died, his sister's oxygen levels began to fall.

At 12.05am, Letby began a bag of liquid feed on Child B and - even though she was not Child B's designated nurse - took her blood gases. At around half-past midnight, Child B's alarm sounded as she was not breathing. Her oxygen saturation levels had fallen to 50%. Child B survived the attack, but doctors concluded she had been the victim of some form of medical "sabotage", only explained by a dose of air administered into her bloodstream.

Letby 'tracked down victim's families on Facebook'
Letby was described by the prosecution as having an "unusual interest" in the victim's families. Police questioned her about why she had tracked the family of Children A and B on Facebook. She said she had no memory of doing so, but accepted there was evidence from her computer.

"We suggest it is an unusual interest and we will see that on occasions she searched in quick succession for several of the families of children's names who appear on this indictment", said Mr Johnson. He reiterated that Letby was always on shift at the time of these sometimes-fatal incidents, telling the jury, "You might be tempted to draw what, we suggest, is the obvious conclusion". Letby, wearing a blue jacket over a black button-up blouse, had earlier pleaded not guilty to seven counts of murder and 15 counts of attempted murder. Family members of some of her alleged child victims sat in the public gallery listening as the names of the children were read out.

On the other side of the public gallery sat the defendant's parents, John, 76, and Susan, 62. The trial continues on Tuesday.
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Mum walked in on nurse killing baby, trial told
An alleged killer nurse was interrupted by the mother of one of her victims who paid her baby boy a visit at the neonatal unit, a court has heard.

Lucy Letby worked on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital

Lucy Letby is accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. Manchester Crown Court heard child E's mother did not realise he was being attacked and was told by the nurse the blood from his mouth was due to a tube. Ms Letby, 32, denies 22 charges. The nurse, of Hereford, is accused of murdering child E and attempting to murder his twin, child F, the following day. The court heard how the twins had been born prematurely and Ms Letby was the designated nurse for both boys.

One night, their mother, who was an inpatient on the postnatal ward, decided to visit her sons in the neonatal unit. The jury was told the mother interrupted Ms Letby, who was in the process of attacking child E, but she did not realise this. Child E's mother found her son acutely distressed and bleeding from his mouth. Ms Letby attempted to reassure the mother saying, "Trust me I'm a nurse". The court heard the nurse urged the mother of child E to go back to her ward, which she did, but was so concerned she phoned her husband. Ms Letby later made a record on the nursing notes which was not true and "designed to cover her tracks", prosecutor Nick Johnson KC said.

"They fail to mention that child E was bleeding at 21:00 BST and they mention a meeting between his mum and a doctor that neither of them remember." The court heard child E was bleeding so heavily that one of the doctors said he had never encountered such a large bleed in a small baby. The jury heard after child E's death his parents did not wish to have a post-mortem examination, the doctor on-call did not deem one necessary and the coroner's office agreed. "As subsequent reviews have established that was a big mistake", Mr Johnson said. He alleged child E was murdered by an injection of air.

'Not an accident'
The prosecution also told the court Ms Letby added insulin to child F's feed. This caused child F's blood sugar to start to drop calamitously while Ms Letby was present and continued after she had gone. Mr Johnson said, "Somebody poisoned him. No other baby on the neonatal unit was being prescribed insulin; therefore, it couldn't have been negligence. You know who was in the room, and you know from the records who hung the [feed] bag." The court heard child F's nutrients bag was replaced and he survived, but the medical team on the unit were concerned and ordered checks. It was also claimed Ms Letby took a "very unusual interest" in the parents of the twins, searching for them repeatedly on Facebook, including on Christmas Day in 2015.

The court heard the nurse allegedly attempted to murder one baby, child G, who had been born at 23 weeks, three times. The baby was born at a different hospital weighing 1lb 2oz (510g) and had later been transferred to the Chester hospital. She had been there three weeks and was "perfectly well" but then vomited and showed signs of infection, the jury heard. She was subsequently transferred away from the Countess of Chester Hospital back to the hospital where she was born, and made a "remarkable recovery".

The jury was told once child G recovered, she was then transferred back to Chester, where Ms Letby allegedly gave her milk via a tube and in little over an hour she had projectile vomited twice and was not breathing. There had been "no significant issues" with child G "until Lucy Letby got involved", the court heard. "Putting it simply the milk in her vomit did not come from nowhere. That doesn't happen by accident", Mr Johnson said. An MRI scan taken between the events revealed neurological changes and an MRI scan a few months later in August 2016 confirmed child G had sustained irreversible brain damage.

The court also heard about child C and D's alleged murders. Ms Letby allegedly injected air into the stomach of the tiny, premature child C through a nose tube, causing his breathing and heart to stop. The trial heard Ms Letby agreed she had been the only person in the room when child C collapsed and was supposed to be looking after another, more poorly baby, in another room. The incident came six days after she allegedly killed child A by injecting air into his bloodstream, and she later similarly attacked his twin sister, child B, causing her to collapse. "You can now see there was a pattern emerging", Mr Johnson said. "Lucy Letby was the only person working on the night shift when child C died who had also been working on either of the shifts when child A died and his twin sister child B collapsed."

'Constant presence'
Mr Johnson told the court Ms Letby's method of attacking the babies was "beginning to develop". "She had injected air into the bloodstream of the first twins, child A and B, and varied this approach by injecting air into child C's stomach via the nasogastric tube", he said. Mr Johnson also alleged Ms Letby murdered child D with an intentional injection of air. The baby girl had an infection but was responding well to treatment until she deteriorated and collapsed three times and could not be revived. At the time, three children had died and one had had a life-threatening episode in the neonatal unit and "only Lucy Letby was the constant presence", the court was told. The jury has been told the trial may last up to six months.
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I'm concerned about my Child, but because I am a stupid christian sheep, I accept the nurse telling me that god has shoved a tube down my Baby's throat causing him to bleed, and if it's "god"'s plan, then I will accept this wholeheartedly and I will refuse to force the nurse to leave my Baby alone. For those of you who can't follow that - people still today cannot look after themselves and their loved ones; they do as they are told by "authourity" despite having genuine worry, and they ring someone else who will not arrive for e.g. 30 minutes, by which time Baby will be dead. I can't help but recall contestants on game/quiz programmes, where the probably-jew host basically exerts itself over the contestants and is so belittling and condescending and undermining. One in particular comes to mind immediately - jim bohen from Bullseye.

Trust. People should be much more difficult and unwilling to give trust away. I have said before everything is about trust.

 

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Accused nurse 'by incubator' as baby heart rate dropped, court hears
A nurse said she saw Lucy Letby standing by the incubator of a premature baby after its[sic] heart rate and oxygen levels dropped.

etby[sic], originally from Hereford, denies the murders and attempted murders (Image - PA)

The baby - known as Child C - died on 14th of June 2015, and is alleged to have been the second tot murdered by Letby at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit. Yesterday, Manchester Crown Court heard from Letby's colleague Sophie Ellis, who was a newly-qualified nurse at the time. She cared for Child C on the night shift before the baby died. Giving evidence from behind a screen, Ms Ellis said Child C, who weighed 800 grams at birth, was fed for the first time at 11pm on 13th of June. Ms Ellis said she left the room briefly to go to the nurse's station but was alerted by an alarm from the baby's monitor.

Asked what she saw when she returned to the room, she said, "I'd seen Lucy standing by the incubator". She said Letby, 32, told her the baby's heart rate and oxygen levels had dropped. Ms Ellis said Child C's condition resolved by itself and she sat at the computer in the room, but the infant's heart rate and oxygen levels then dropped again. The witness said, "Lucy was standing at the incubator. I would have been looking from the computer, it was on the right-hand side."

Ms Ellis said she put out a crash call for a medical team to attend and then did chest compressions on Child C until becoming upset when the child's mother came into the room. She said, "It was completely overwhelming. It was very sudden, very unexpected. I did get a little bit upset. Lucy was stood opposite me and she said, 'Do you want me to take over?', and I said yes.".

The court has heard Letby was designated to look after a baby in a different room at the time of Child C's collapse. Child C died just before 6am, the court heard. Letby, originally from Hereford, denies the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. The court banned the reporting of names of babies allegedly killed by Letby. The trial continues.
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Babies and Children are not "its". Fucking disgusting "journalist" chris riches.

I may not post all articles about this case. I might post any, only if I come across them.

 

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you should continue to post those things

I certainly intend to post things as I find them.

Continue posting. Don't stop as we need a lot of people like you, me, and other Proud Gentiles andhour Spiritual Satanists in order to expose the horrendous species called the Poos.

Thanks, lol. I have a lot of articles to post, but I want to post the more important and more relevant ones.