Paediatric consultant Dr Ravi Jayaram had started to 'notice a coincidence between unexplained deaths and the presence of Lucy Letby', Manchester Crown Court is told
A paediatric doctor became suspicious about nurse Lucy Letby after he found her standing over a dying baby “making no effort to help”, the jury in her trial has been told.while working at the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. None of the alleged victims can be named for legal reasons.
Due to her prematurity, it was arranged that Child K would be moved from the Countess of Chester to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral following her birth in the early hours of the morning, the court heard. “Dr Jayaram decided to check on how Lucy Letby was and how Child K was. As he walked into room 1, he saw Lucy Letby standing over Child K’s incubator.
When Dr Jayaram asked Ms Letby if something had happened, she said Child K had “just started deteriorating now”, the court heard.
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