Ex-nurse being retried on one count of attempted murder, with jury told on first day of her other convictions
A nurse who murdered seven babies was “caught virtually red-handed” trying to kill another newborn by dislodging her breathing tube two hours after she was born, a jury has been told.
Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, told jurors that Letby was “caught virtually red-handed” trying to murder the newborn, known as Baby K, by a doctor who walked in on her in the early hours of 17 February 2016. The prosecutor said one of Letby’s colleagues, Dr Ravi Jayaram, walked in on the nurse “doing nothing” while Baby K’s blood oxygen levels collapsed suddenly. Alarms would ordinarily have sounded to alert staff that a baby’s heart rate or blood oxygen levels had fallen below a certain level – but this time they did not, Johnson said.
“We suggest the fact Lucy Letby was doing nothing and the fact the alarm was not sounding is evidence from which you can conclude that Lucy Letby, the convicted murderer, had displaced the tube.” Johnson said Letby was “trying to create the impression” that the newborn was dislodging her own tube despite being extremely premature and heavily sedated on morphine.
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