Serial child killer Lucy Letby has taken to the stand to offer proof in a packed courtroom in the present day and flatly denied ever harming a child in her care.
Letby, 34, is at the moment serving 14 complete life orders after being convicted final August of murdering seven infants and making an attempt to homicide an extra six whereas working as a neonatal unit on the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Right this moment she sat at a desk in a crowded Courtroom 7 of Manchester Crown Courtroom and gave repeated denials in regards to the loss of life of Child Ok, a 25-week-old child the prosecution say she tried to kill.
Answering questions from her barrister Ben Myers, she went on to disclaim any duty for the deaths or near-deaths of infants for which she has been convicted.
Letby, initially from Hereford, is at the moment on trial accused of the tried homicide of Child Ok and has pleaded not responsible.
Serial child killer Lucy Letby in the present day took the stand to offer proof in a packed courtroom through which she flatly denied ever harming a child in her care (image by courtroom artist)
Letby, 34, is at the moment serving 14 complete life orders after being convicted final August of murdering seven infants and making an attempt to homicide an extra six whereas working as a neonatal unit on the Countess of Chester Hospital
The jury in her authentic trial couldn’t attain a verdict on the case.
The previous nurse moved from the glass-panelled dock to sit down within the properly of the courtroom. A hoop-bound file was opened out in entrance of her. To her left sat a lady jail officer.
Letby, who was 26 on the time the alleged homicide try in February 2016, was sporting a black jacket over a turquoise shirt. Her blonde-brown hair hung down beneath her shoulders and she or he wore no make-up.
Her voice remained agency all through the 76 minutes she gave proof.
She answered ‘no’ each occasions when Mr Myers requested ‘Did you try and kill Child Ok?’ and ‘Did you plan to do her any hurt in any respect?’
The barrister then referred to the convictions that make his consumer probably the most prolific child killer in UK felony historical past.
He requested, ‘Do you settle for that you’ve ever supposed to harm any child in your care?’, and she or he replied: ‘No, I do not.’
She additionally stated ‘no’ when he requested: ‘Do you settle for that you’ve ever tried to hurt any child in your care?’
Letby, previously of Hereford, denies tried homicide of a untimely new child, Child Ok
In reply to questions from her barrister Ben Myers, Letby in the present day went on to disclaim any duty for the deaths or near-deaths of infants for which she has been convicted
The killer informed the jury she didn’t recall specific occasions across the time she is alleged to have attacked Child Ok by dislodging her respiratory tube.
She remembered seeing the toddler in Nursery 1, however couldn’t be particular about timings.
Mr Myers stated the case towards her was based mostly across the proof of Dr Ravi Jayaram, the lead guide on the neonatal uni.
Dr Jayaram had stated he had walked into Nursery 1 to search out Child Ok desaturating and Letby doing nothing and the alarms not sounding.
‘Do you keep in mind any event when one thing like that was taking place,’ he requested her. ‘No,’ she replied.
Letby insisted there had been no incident that morning the place she was making an attempt to harm Ok, nor one the place she was not giving her any assist she wanted.
She once more stated ‘no’ when Mr Myers requested: ‘While you say you do not recall any incident like that, are you accepting that it occurred?’
The barrister referred the killer to her first interview with police on July 5, 2018, when an officer requested about her contact with Child Ok on the time of her desaturation at 3.50am on February 17, 2016.
A physician on the Countess of Chester Hospital (pictured) has stated he had caught Letby ‘nearly red-handed’ making an attempt to homicide a really untimely child often known as Child Ok
She had stated: ‘Okay, so I don’t recall why I used to be within the nursery with Ok. I’d must look again by way of the notes.’
Letby in the present day stated detectives had offered her with a choice of charts and medical notes, and solely knew from the notes of her nursing colleague Melanie Taylor that the newborn’s tube had slipped.
‘I used to be counting on the doc in entrance of me that was written by Melanie Taylor,’ she added.
Letby claimed she solely remembered Ok as a result of she was a 25-week gestation child, ‘which is uncommon for us to have on the unit. I did keep in mind her being on the unit in some unspecified time in the future’.
In a police interview on June 12, 2019, Letby was requested about Dr Jayaram feeling ‘uncomfortable’ about discovering her alone with Child Ok in Nursery 1.
She replied on the time: ‘He did not increase any concern with me.’
The case continues.
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