Tortoise
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Baby N's episodes of apnoea doesn't mean that fits with the other cases where no medical explanation from the babies' medical histories could be found for unexpected sudden collapses and in some cases non-response to resuscitation.But at the same time, before the early morning of 15th June this baby was well and ready to be discharged. So baby N was not having regular desaturations before the 15th. He suddenly went down hill, and so far it seems no one knows why. Blood screens revealed no infection, and his haemophilia is a mild one. So his sudden deterioration with no medical explanation fits the other cases. The only difference is that LL wasn't present when he started deteriorating.
It's possible that an explanation will be given whereby the prosecution will argue that LL harmed the baby before she left her shift on the 14th, and that the baby either deteriorated unnoticed during the night, or suddenly crashed a few hours later. However that doesn't seem to form part of the charges. Otherwise this could seriously undermine the whole prosecution case surely - as if you accept that baby N was previously well, and then suddenly deteriorated with no medical explanation - but it wasn't down to LL - then that could also be the case for the other babies too.
On the one hand if the prosecution can convince the jury that she is guilty of just one murder, then the weight of evidence needed to convince the jury that she is guilty of any and all of the charges is lowered in my opinion. The flip side of the coin means that if the defence can show that just one of these mysterious collapses couldn't have been down to LL, then that will cast doubt on all the other cases too.
It isn't true to say the only difference between his earlier desaturations and the ones where she is charged as that she wasn't present. The difference is the fresh bleeding in the throat and swelling, and screaming and crying. She was on shift for his last collapse that evening. The experts were obviously mindful of his propensity to desaturate starting at 1am that morning and continuing, which means it was not deemed suspicious, after the fact. JMO
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