Lucy Letby, 32, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder a further 10, while working at a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016
A “stable” newborn baby died within 90 minutes of an alleged serial killer nurse starting her shift, a jury has been told.
Prosecutors say the collapse or deaths of 17 children “were not naturally occurring tragedies” and that in each case there was only “one common denominator” and that Ms Letby was the “constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse”.Jurors were shown a graphic of around 30 members of staff who worked in the unit, with an “x” marking those who were present during each of the 22 incidents over the course of 12 months.
When Lucy Letby came on shift at 7.30pm on 8 June, medical notes suggested he was “stable” and an intravenous line had been fitted to deliver glucose, the court heard. When asked what she thought had happened to him, she told officers she wondered whether the bag of fluid for administering glucose “was not what we thought it was”, the court heard.
Ms Letby was again on shift in the neonatal unit but was not Child B’s “designated nurse” and had been assigned to look after two other babies in a different room, jurors were told.
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