Lucy Letby trial live today: Nurse ‘took photos of thank you card from alleged victims’ parents’

A murder-accused nurse photographed a thanks card from the dad and mom of two of her alleged victims as “one thing to recollect”.

Lucy Letby, 33, mentioned it was commonplace for her to take images of playing cards she had despatched and acquired.

She is on trial at Manchester Crown Court docket accused of the murders of seven infants and the tried murders of 10 others.

Giving proof on Monday, Lucy Letby mentioned she was working an evening shift within the early hours of November 20 2015 when she determined to {photograph} the cardboard from her alleged victims’ dad and mom on the nurses’ station.

Her barrister Ben Myers KC requested: “Why did you are taking {a photograph} of a thanks automotive from the (Little one E and F’s dad and mom)?”

Letby replied: “It was one thing I needed to recollect. I very often take pictures of playing cards I’ve despatched and acquired.”

Mr Myers mentioned: “Something uncommon in you doing that?”

Jurors had been instructed Letby searched the identify of the twins’ mom on Fb a complete of 9 instances between August 2015 and January 2016.

Letby mentioned: “Looking for folks on Fb is one thing I’d do. Very often (the twins’ mom) was on my thoughts following (Little one E and Little one F).

Mr Myers mentioned: “Is there something uncommon for you wanting greater than as soon as on Fb for somebody in your thoughts?

Letby mentioned: “No, that’s a traditional sample of behaviour for me.”

The defendant, from Hereford, denies all of the alleged offences mentioned to have taken place between June 2015 and June 2016.

A murder-accused nurse photographed a thanks card from the dad and mom of two of her alleged victims as “one thing to recollect”.

Lucy Letby, 33, mentioned it was commonplace for her to take images of playing cards she had despatched and acquired.

She is on trial at Manchester Crown Court docket accused of the murders of seven infants and the tried murders of 10 others.

Two of her victims on the Countess of Chester’s neonatal unit are mentioned to be new child twin boys, Little one E and F.

It’s alleged she murdered Little one E with a deadly injection of air into his bloodstream and tried to homicide his brother, Little one F, by insulin poisoning in August 2015.

Jurors have heard the boys’ dad and mom introduced in a hamper and a ‘thanks’ card to the unit some three months later.

Photographs of the cardboard had been recovered from Letby’s telephone following her arrest, the court docket heard.

Vital issues from consultants over Lucy Letby’s “affiliation” with quite a few child collapses had been raised eight months earlier than she stopped engaged on a neonatal unit, a court docket has been instructed.

Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven infants and trying to homicide 10 others on the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

On Tuesday, advisor Dr Ravi Jayaram instructed Manchester Crown Court docket: “We had vital issues from the autumn of 2015. They had been on the radar of somebody as senior as the chief director of nursing way back to October 2015.

“As clinicians, we put our religion within the system… in senior administration to escalate issues and examine them. The preliminary response was, ‘It’s unlikely that something is happening. We’ll see what occurs’.

“We mentioned, ‘OK’ – towards our higher judgment on reflection.”

Nurse Lucy Letby wrote a sympathy card to the grieving dad and mom of a child woman she is claimed to have murdered, her trial heard.

The defendant took {a photograph} on her cell phone of the cardboard forward of the teen’s funeral.

Letby, 33, is accused of killing the premature-born toddler, often known as Little one I, within the early hours of October 23 2015, which the Crown say was the fourth try to take her life.

On Thursday, Manchester Crown Court docket was instructed Letby captured {a photograph} of the cardboard on the morning of November 10 after she completed an evening shift – hours earlier than Little one I’s funeral.

She wrote: “There are not any phrases to make this time any simpler.

Nurse Lucy Letby photographed a sympathy card despatched to the grieving dad and mom of a child woman to recollect her “sort phrases”, a court docket heard.

Letby, 33, captured the picture of the cardboard on her cell phone forward of the teen’s funeral, Manchester Crown Court docket was instructed.

She is accused of murdering the prematurely-born toddler, often known as Little one I, within the early hours of October 23 2015, which the Crown say was the fourth try to take her life.

Homicide-accused nurse Lucy Letby instructed jurors she was “shocked” on the collapse and loss of life of her first alleged sufferer.

Her barrister, Ben Myers KC, turned to the primary particular person allegation towards her, that she murdered a prematurely born twin boy shortly after an evening shift began on June 8.

Requested how she felt after the loss of life of Little one A, Letby mentioned: “Shocked. It was a whole shock to all of us.”

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