Nurse Lucy Letby broke down during girl’s collapse & said: ‘This is my second baby this has happened to’, Dr tells court
A DOCTOR told Lucy Letby’s murder trial how the nurse broke down during a little girl’s fatal collapse and said: “This is my second baby this has happened to.”
Dr Emily Thomas said Letby was the nurse in charge of Baby D’s care the night she died.
In a statement read to the jury, she said: “Lucy was the designated nurse for D.
“I believe she’d been the designated nurse for Baby A and later became very upset in front of me.
“She said to me, ‘This is my second baby that this has happened to’.”
Baby A is the first of seven babies Letby, 32, is alleged to have murdered at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire, in 2015 and 2016.
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He died on June 8, 2015 — 13 days before medics failed to resuscitate Baby D as she collapsed for a third time.
The boy’s sister, Baby B, survived a near-fatal collapse on June 10.
Dr Thomas said that when called to help Baby D, she noticed an unusual rash on her abdomen.
She could see the tot was struggling to breathe and oxygen levels were low.
Two colleagues began to carry out CPR on the baby.
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Letby, of Hereford, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill ten more.
The Manchester crown court trial continues.
