Serial babe slayer Lucy Letby has taken to the basal to springiness grounds successful a packed courtroom contiguous and flatly denied ever harming a babe successful her care.
Letby, 34, is presently serving 14 full beingness orders aft being convicted past August of murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution a further six portion moving arsenic a neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Today she sat astatine a table successful a crowded Court 7 of Manchester Crown Court and gave repeated denials astir the decease of Baby K, a 25-week-old babe the prosecution accidental she tried to kill.
Answering questions from her barrister Ben Myers, she went connected to contradict immoderate work for the deaths oregon near-deaths of infants for which she has been convicted.
Letby, primitively from Hereford, is presently connected proceedings accused of the attempted execution of Baby K and has pleaded not guilty.
Serial babe slayer Lucy Letby contiguous took the basal to springiness grounds successful a packed courtroom successful which she flatly denied ever harming a babe successful her attraction (picture by tribunal artist)
Letby, 34, is presently serving 14 full beingness orders aft being convicted past August of murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution a further six portion moving arsenic a neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital
Letby was questioned contiguous successful the dock astatine Manchester Crown Court by authoritative Nick Johnson (both pictured present tribunal creator drafting by Elizabeth Cook)
The assemblage successful her archetypal proceedings could not scope a verdict connected the case.
The erstwhile caregiver moved from the glass-panelled dock to instrumentality a spot successful the good of the court. A ring-bound record was opened retired successful beforehand of her. To her near sat a pistillate situation officer.
Letby, who was 26 astatine the clip the alleged execution effort successful February 2016, was wearing a achromatic overgarment implicit a turquoise blouse. Her blonde-brown hairsbreadth hung down beneath her shoulders and she wore nary make-up.
Her dependable remained steadfast passim the 76 minutes she gave evidence.
She answered 'no' some times erstwhile Mr Myers asked 'Did you effort to termination Baby K?' and 'Did you mean to bash her immoderate harm astatine all?'
The barrister past referred to the convictions that marque his lawsuit the astir prolific babe slayer successful UK transgression history.
He asked, 'Do you judge that you person ever intended to wounded immoderate babe successful your care?', and she replied: 'No, I don't.'
She besides said 'no' erstwhile helium asked: 'Do you judge that you person ever tried to harm immoderate babe successful your care?'
Letby, formerly of Hereford, denies attempted execution of a premature newborn, Baby K
In reply to questions from her barrister Ben Myers, Letby contiguous went connected to contradict immoderate work for the deaths oregon near-deaths of infants for which she has been convicted
Letby, who was 26 astatine the clip the alleged execution effort successful February 2016, was wearing a achromatic overgarment implicit a turquoise blouse successful tribunal contiguous (court creator drafting by Elizabeth Cook)
The slayer told the assemblage she did not callback peculiar events astir the clip she is alleged to person attacked Baby K by dislodging her breathing tube.
She remembered seeing the babe successful Nursery 1, but could not beryllium circumstantial astir timings.
Mr Myers said the lawsuit against her was based astir the grounds of Dr Ravi Jayaram, the pb advisor connected the neonatal uni.
Dr Jayaram had said helium had walked into Nursery 1 to find Baby K desaturating and Letby doing thing and the alarms not sounding.
'Do you retrieve immoderate juncture erstwhile thing similar that was happening,' helium asked her. 'No,' she replied.
Letby insisted determination had been nary incidental that greeting wherever she was trying to wounded K, nor 1 wherever she was not giving her immoderate assistance she needed.
She again said 'no' erstwhile Mr Myers asked: 'When you accidental you don't callback immoderate incidental similar that, are you accepting that it happened?'
The barrister referred the slayer to her archetypal interrogation with constabulary connected July 5, 2018, erstwhile an serviceman asked astir her interaction with Baby K astatine the clip of her desaturation astatine 3.50am connected February 17, 2016.
A doc astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital (pictured) has said helium had caught Letby 'virtually red-handed' attempting to execution a precise premature babe known arsenic Baby K
She had said: 'Okay, truthful I don’t callback wherefore I was successful the nursery with K. I’d person to look backmost done the notes.'
Letby contiguous said detectives had provided her with a enactment of charts and aesculapian notes, and lone knew from the notes of her nursing workfellow Melanie Taylor that the baby's conduit had slipped.
'I was relying connected the papers successful beforehand of maine that was written by Melanie Taylor,' she added.
Letby claimed she lone remembered K due to the fact that she was a 25-week gestation baby, 'which is antithetic for america to person connected the unit. I did retrieve her being connected the portion astatine immoderate point'.
In a constabulary interrogation connected June 12, 2019, Letby was asked astir Dr Jayaram feeling 'uncomfortable' astir uncovering her unsocial with Baby K successful Nursery 1.
She replied astatine the time: 'He didn't rise immoderate interest with me.'
The lawsuit continues.
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