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Another nurse broke down in tears as she recalled Letby telling her a baby looked pale – even though she was standing six feet away and the infant's cot was in a darkened room with her top half covered by a canopy.
When Ashleigh Hudson went over to Baby I she found her in 'quite poor condition' and needing urgent care.
The infant had been 'very stable' 15 minutes earlier, when Miss Hudson stepped away from Nursery 2 to help a colleague in the high-dependency Nursery 1 of the Countess of Chester Hospital.
She diverted for only 'seconds' to get some expressed breast milk she planned to give Baby I a short time later.
Unaware that the infant was unwell, Nurse Hudson returned to the nursery but did not immediately examine her. Instead she began preparing the milk with her back to Baby I's cot.
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Asked by Simon Driver, prosecuting, what the light was like in the nursery, Nurse Hudson replied: 'The main light for the room was switched off but the light in the corridor was on. So you were able to do things in the room and have enough light to see where your patients were and where the equipment was.'
Some light from the corridor came into the room through a window. They were sometimes kept in front of the window, but they did not obscure much of the light.
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Mr Driver: 'Was there anything about the layout or lighting that would have afforded her a better view of the baby than the one you had?'
Nurse Hudson replied: 'No'.
She added: 'After switching the light on I immediately went to I, pushed back the canopy and realised she was in quite poor condition'.
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