WaxLyrical
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Oh thank you! I didn’t see your post and went away looking for it myself. Facepalm.@JosieJo @WaxLyrical . Here are LL's texts after Baby C's death (including the one about persuading them to have hand and foot prints done):
Text messages and Whatsapp messages sent to and from Letby's phone the morning after Child C died are shown to the court.
Letby messages a colleague: "Sorry I was just off [last night], was not a great start to shift but sadly it got worse."
The colleague responds: "You weren't off, you just were not happy and there is nothing I could say that was going to make it any better."
Letby: "I was struggling to accept what happened to [Child A], now we have lost [Child C] overnight and it's all a bit much."
The colleague replies: "It will be but it does happen to these babies unfortunately."
"It's a very sad part of our job."
The colleague recalls a baby who had previously died in the neonatal unit, but had "overwhelming sepsis" so "nothing would have saved that baby".
Letby: "[C] is the little 800g baby...went off very suddenly. I know it happens but it's so sudden..."
Messages are relayed detailing how nursing staff on the night were upset by what happened.
Letby's colleague messages: "This is where we have to pull together and look after each other."
Letby: "Think we support each other brilliantly...just such a shock especially after Monday."
Letby is advised to "switch off for a bit".
Letby messaged her mum that morning to say: "We lost a little one overnight. Very unexpected and sad xx"
Letby added, in the message to her mum: "He only weighted 800g...new girl was looking after him, she is devastated."
Letby's colleague, in a message to Letby, said: "Hoping you are going to ok, this is not like you. Sending the biggest hugs."
Letby, in her reply, says: "It's heartbreaking but it's not about me."
Letby's colleague, in her reply, says to use a 'northern phrase': "Chin up chuck we will get through it together."
Letby: "It's not about me or anybody else, it's those poor parents who have to walk away without their baby."
Letby messages another colleague asking when she is next work, before adding: "We lost little [Child C] overnight, everyone's devastated."
The colleague responds: "Damn. Infection? Crap week. How is [Child B]?"
Letby gives an update and says, for Child C, "it happened very quickly."
The colleague responds: "Damn. As quick as [Child A]? Yeah, s*** week."
Letby messaged the colleague: "Parents sat with [Child C] in the family room...persuaded them to have hand and footprints but they just wanted to go home."
The colleague responds: "That is so sad, don't know what to say."
Letby: "There are no words, it's been awful."
The colleague: "It's a really tough week, especially for you."
The conversation ends at 10.12am.
Letby searched for both the parents of Child C on Facebook later that day, at 3.32pm.
A conversation Letby has with a third colleague, later that day, is shown to the court.
Letby: "I don't really want to go in tonight."
The colleague responds: "I don't particularly but we will get each other through it."
Letby: "We are a good team and we will get through. You did so so well."
The colleague: "We all did - so lucky to work with such an amazing and supportive team."
Recap: Lucy Letby trial, Thursday, October 27
THE trial of Lucy Letby, who denies murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit and attempting to murder 10 more,…www.chesterstandard.co.uk
