Lucy Letby – the former nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to murder six others while working in a hospital’s neonatal unit – told a court she was “not the kind of person who kills babies” and was “not guilty of what I was doing.” found guilty of”.
The 34-year-old faces a retrial for the attempted murder of a girl, known as Child K, in 2016 by dislodging the child’s breathing tube.
She was convicted last August of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, between June 2015 and June 2016.
A verdict could not be reached in an allegation involving a girl, known as Child K.
Prosecutors at Manchester Crown Court said she was “caught virtually in the act” by a doctor who entered the intensive care ward of the hospital’s neonatal unit in February 2016.
Consultant pediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram said the nurse stood by the newborn’s incubator “doing nothing” as blood oxygen levels fell but no monitor alarms sounded.
Lucy Letby was 26 years old at the time of the alleged incident
Ben Myers KC, defending, asked Letby: “Do you accept that you ever intended to harm any baby in your care?”
Letby replied, “No, I don’t.”
Mr Myers continued: “Do you accept that you have ever attempted to harm any baby in your care?”
She replied: “No.”
Letby told the jury of six women and six men that he could not recall any incident with Child K and Dr. Jayaram entering the room.
Questioned by Nick Johnson, for the prosecution, about the tube, Letby said: “I know my actions and I know I didn’t dislodge that tube.”
Johnson said: “You killed seven babies in that unit, didn’t you?”
Letby replied, “No, no.”
Johnson said: “And you tried to kill six other people, one on two separate occasions, didn’t you?”
Letby said, “No.”
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Asked why she looked up Child K’s last name on Facebook in 2018, after the child left the facility, and whether it was “just an innocent coincidence,” she responded, “Well, I’m not guilty of what I was found guilty of.” “
Child K was transferred to a specialized hospital at the end of February 17, 2016, due to her extreme prematurity, having been born at 25 weeks of gestation. She died there three days later, although the prosecution does not allege that Letby caused her death.
Letby, from Hereford, who was 26 at the time of the alleged incident, denies a single charge of attempted murder.
A court order prohibits the disclosure of the identities of the surviving and deceased children involved in the case.
Letby will continue to give evidence on Tuesday.
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