Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby “reveled” in her success when she finally succeeded in killing a baby girl she had been the target of murder three weeks earlier, the prosecutor in her trial said today.
She was so excited that she interrupted (Baby) I’s parents as they were bathing the dead baby, and later sent them a condolence card on the day of her funeral.
Prosecutor Nick Johnson KC told the jury on the fourth day of his closing speech that Letby had made “repeated and determined attempts” to kill Baby I.
At one point, she falsified feeding records to make it seem like the child had some sort of problem, and also altered another baby’s records to make it seem like she wasn’t present at Baby I’s eventual death.
Ten days before the murder, she “gave herself away by claiming she could see the baby’s pale face in the darkened Nursery 2, though her colleague, Ashleigh Hudson, who was closer, couldn’t.”
Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby ‘reveled’ in her success when she finally succeeded in killing a baby girl she had been the target of murder three weeks earlier, the prosecutor in her trial said today
Nurse Ashleigh Hudson remembers the position of Baby I’s bed and the lighting in the nursery when she found her ‘pale and limp’
When Baby I finally died on October 23, 2015, Letby’s behavior had been both “bizarre” and inappropriate, with the child’s grieving mother remembering smiling as she entered the room and “getting into their moment.”
“She was excited because she killed another child,” Johnson said. She enjoyed what she had done and enjoyed the suffering and suffering she had caused.
Her voyeuristic tendencies led her to look up her mother on the Internet. She inflicted pain on Baby I more than once and finally succeeded in killing her.
“After killing her, she wrote that condolence card and took a picture of it. It was still on her phone when it was confiscated by the police.”
Mr Johnson said Letby had no right to go in and see Baby I’s grieving parents because she had not been the baby’s designated nurse and had two other babies to look after.
The mother recalled Letby’s return and told the jury, “She smiled and went on and on about how she had given (Baby) I her first bath and how she had enjoyed it.” I wish she would just stop talking.
“In the end, I think she realized and stopped. It wasn’t something we wanted to hear now.”
Mr Johnson alleged that Letby turned her attention to Baby I after she failed to kill Baby G or Baby H, both girls.
The nurse first attacked her, he said, on Sept. 30 after she abused the mother’s weekday routine to spend most of the day with baby I before leaving to pick up her other children from school. to fetch.
“From the moment she left, Lucy Letby had the perfect opportunity to attack Baby I.”
A short time later, the baby vomited so much that she had to be transferred to nursery 1. However, she recovered quickly and within hours she was looking for food.
Letby’s note on the incident read: ‘Mummy present for doctor’s assessment. Had left the ward when (Baby) I had to vomit a lot and transferred to crèche 1’.
Baby I was allegedly attacked for a second time around 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 13 during what Johnson described as the “Seeing in the Dark” event.
A note on which Lucy Letby (pictured) wrote ‘I am evil, I did this’ should be read ‘literally’, a court ruled
Lucy Letby, 33, accused of murdering premature babies, was cross-examined in court last week
By then, the baby, a long-term patient on the ward, should finally be able to go home in a few weeks.
In the early hours, her designated nurse, Ashleigh Hudson, briefly left Daycare 1 to pick up some milk for her next feeding. When she came back she sat down at a desk and started preparing the milk.
“The next thing she remembered was Lucy Letby appearing in the doorway and Lucy Letby pointing out that (baby) I looked pale. Lucy Letby was about five feet from the bed at the time.
“Nurse Hudson turned on the light, pulled back the awning, and immediately realized (baby) I was in very bad shape. She was hypotonic and gasping for agonal breaths – dying breaths.’
The attorney said that during cross-examination, Letby acknowledged that her eyesight was no better than Sister Hudson’s. When asked how she could have seen the baby’s condition from that distance, she replied, “I had more experience, so I knew what I was looking for…”
She immediately corrected herself and replaced “for” with the word “at.”
At the time, Mr. Johnson had responded with a sigh. ‘Ah. ‘I knew what I was looking for’. What do you mean?’
Letby looked sad and replied, ‘I didn’t mean it that way. I find it difficult to concentrate’.
She added, “I’m having a hard time focusing on all the dates right now.”
Today Mr Johnson told the jury: ‘Data had nothing to do with what was being asked here. You saw her provide that evidence, you heard what she said.
“Did she make an innocent mistake or did something else slip under the pressure of the witness stand?
“We say she knew (baby) that I was in extremis because she caused the problem.”
As he came to the end of his speech, Mr. Johnson read out a series of lists of babies who had similar experiences in a number of categories.
These included babies with bleeding in their throats, babies with an unusual color, babies who had cried or cried unusually, and babies who collapsed shortly after being visited by their parents.
The lawyer then told the jury, “If someone tries to tell you that there are no agreements in this case, you now have a list.”
None of the babies can be identified for legal reasons, but Mr Johnson named each of the alleged murder victims as he listed those who would all have gone home from Countess of Chester Hospital had Letby not ‘sabotaged them’.
He then read out the names of the other 10 babies that Letby is accused of attempted murder.
In his last words to the jury, he said: ‘That is our case, and you let us know if it is right’.
Letby’s attorney, Ben Myers KC, will begin his closing speech tomorrow.
Originally from Hereford, Letby denies murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and attempting to murder a further ten. Her trial at Manchester Crown Court continues.