Former nurse accused of attempting to murder Baby K by displacing breathing tube days before death
Baby K was born ‘extremely premature’ at the Countess of Chester hospital , where Letby allegedly tried to kill her in the neonatal unit.Baby K was born ‘extremely premature’ at the Countess of Chester hospital , where Letby allegedly tried to kill her in the neonatal unit.The mother of a newborn baby allegedly attacked by the nurse Lucy Letby said it was the “hardest decision of my life” to switch off her daughter’s life support, a court has heard.
Within two hours of Baby K’s birth, Letby was said to have been “caught virtually red-handed” by a senior consultant paediatrician when he saw her standing over the cot “doing nothing” as Baby K’s blood oxygen levels dipped and alarms were not sounding as they should have done. She said a female nurse told them that the newborn was “doing well” and offered to take photographs of them all together.
In her statement, Baby K’s mother said she was lying awake in the family accommodation area at Arrowe Park in the early hours of 20 February when she had the “strangest feeling which I cannot begin to describe”. “I remember saying to the doctor that she had been poked and prodded from the moment she was born. Her tiny little delicate body had swollen up so much we didn’t want her to be suffering any more.
“One of the staff showed us to a family room where it was peaceful and quiet. Our daughter was wrapped in a blanket and was wearing a little hat. Our daughter was in my husband’s arms when she took her last breath and silently passed away.”
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