Hospital move bid for mum of baby ‘attacked by Letby'
Daily Express|June 18, 2024
A DOCTOR who treated a baby allegedly attacked by killer nurse Lucy Letby stood by her call not to earlier transfer the infant's mother to a specialist hospital, a court heard.
Chris Riches
Hospital move bid for mum of baby ‘attacked by Letby'

Letby, 34, allegedly attempted to murder the child, known only as Baby K, in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2016 by deliberately displacing the tot's breathing tube.

Manchester Crown Court heard how Letby was convicted last year of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more.

Now she denies trying to kill Baby K within two hours of her birth after she was born "extremely premature" at 2.12am on February 17 eight years ago and weighed just 1lb 8oz.

Jurors were told yesterday that plans to move Baby K's mother to the nearest available hospital at Preston, Lancashire, were cancelled some 35 hours earlier.

Cancelled

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