The trial of Lucy Letby, who denies murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit and attempting to murder 10 more,…
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Mr Johnson now talks the court through a summary of Lucy Letby's police interviews for Child I.
For the first incident on September 30, Letby had no independent recollection of it. She said she did not know whether the distended abdomen was her observation or Child I's mother.
For the October 13 incident, she did recall that incident.
She said she put on the light when she entered the room with nurse Ashleigh Hudson and noted Child I looked pale. Child I was shallow breathing and gasping, and the apnoea alarm was not activated. Letby could not recall giving Child I treatment prior to that event.
For October 14, Letby said she could not recall that shift.
Letby could not recall the night when Child I died, other than recalling she had died.
She said there was a feeling Child I had been transferred between hospitals too quickly.
Lucy Letby, in a subsequent police interview, said she had sent a sympathy card to the parents, and had taken a photo of the card on her phone.
She denied giving air via the NGT.
For the October 13 incident, Letby agreed it would have been difficult to see if Child I was pale without the lights being on.
She thought she and Ashleigh Hudson had been at the doorway when noting Child I was pale. She could not recall if there was a prior examination.
She said “maybe I spotted something that Ashley wasn’t able to spot” because she was “more experienced than Ashley”. She said there was still light coming into the room from the corridor and there would be some natural light.
For October 14 and 22, Letby denied causing Child I any harm.
In a third interview, Letby was asked about texts following the October 14 shift, she agreed she had sent texts to a colleague saying Child I looked 'not good' and had asked to be assigned to her care.
She was asked why she had searched for Child I's mother on Facebook, and said she did not know, and could not recall doing so.