Hospital nurse accused of murdering seven babies ‘constant malevolent presence’

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Nurse Lucy Letby was a “constant malevolent presence” in the babies' care, a jury has been told.

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Lucy Letby appearing in the dock at Manchester Crown Court where she is charged with the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of another 10, between June 2015 and June 2016 while working on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital

Opening the prosecution case on Monday at Manchester Crown Court, Nick Johnson KC said the Countess of Chester was a “busy general hospital” which included a neonatal unit that cared for premature and sick babies.He said: “It is a hospital like so many others in the UK, but unlike many other hospitals in the UK and unlike many other neonatal units in the UK, within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital a poisoner was at work.

Mr Johnson went on: “Their concern was that babies who were dying had deteriorated unexpectedly. Not only that when babies seriously collapsed they did not respond to appropriate and timely resuscitation. Mr Johnson said as medics could not account for the collapses and deaths, police were called in and conducted a “painstaking review”.

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