A UK jury has heard testimony accusing Lucy Letby, 33, of injecting a baby boy nicknamed Child M with air in April 2016 before attempting to poison the newborn’s twin, Child L, with insulin, reportedly Monday.
Child M and Child L are just two of 10 children Letby has been accused of attempting to kill in addition to the seven children she is accused of killing at the Countess of Chester Hospital just south of Liverpool. Letby has denied all allegations against her.
Jurors listened as the prosecution described how doctors and nurses worked to revive Baby M, a six-week-old premature baby, for 25 minutes in the late afternoon of April 9, 2016, administering CPR and multiple doses of adrenaline after he had stopped breathing, according to the BBC.
A court sketch shows Lucy Letby at Warrington Magistrates’ Court via videolink on 12 November 2020. The neonatal nurse is accused of killing seven babies and the attempted murder of 10 others. (SWNS)
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The baby was eventually stabilized and was placed on a ventilator before he and his twin brother were released from hospital in May 2016.
The prosecution said that baby M collapsed after Letby injected him with oxygen.
Letby, who was assigned the baby for evening care and noted that he had symptoms that indicated the brain was starved of oxygen, denied the allegations.
Brain scans on Child M reportedly found that he suffered no adverse hangovers.
Letby abruptly left the court proceedings last week after breaking down in tears when testimony began in relation to Child L, who she also denied attempting to kill.
The court heard how the newborns began to deteriorate “at virtually the same time” after Letby also allegedly attacked Baby L in the early hours of April 10, 2016, just hours after doctors managed to stabilize Baby M.
The maternity ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the UK, where Letby worked and is said to have killed seven babies between 2015 and 2016. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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She was accused of injecting Child L with a dose of insulin and the doctor on duty said he was concerned about the child’s blood sugar levels falling, which could happen after a dose of insulin was given.
But when asked if she had administered infant insulin, Letby told police officers, who questioned her in 2019, “It wasn’t done by me.”
Letby said she didn’t think she or another nurse could have accidentally administered the insulin dose.
A blood sample from Child L had been sent from a laboratory at the nearby Royal Liverpool Hospital which showed that the insulin had been given to the child rather than being naturally produced by his pancreas, a consultant clinical scientist at the facility in Liverpool, the Dr. Anna Milan, he told the court.
Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, 33, allegedly killed seven babies. (Credit: SWNS)
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Two vials of insulin were also confirmed to have been delivered to the neonatal unit in 2016, along with six vials in 2015 and two vials in 2014, the BBC reported.
Letby’s case remains ongoing.
