2:43pm
Letby noted, in family communication at 2.10pm: 'Parents contacted by SN Butterworth during intubation. Both phones switched off and no answer on landline. message left. Call returned shortly after'.
Mr Johnson says that note must refer to the 8am intubation done by a male doctor. His note of 'intubation drugs given'.
Mr Johnson says it had been said the parents' statements were agreed, but now they are not.
Child N's father said Lucy Letby rang him up and gave details. He added, in response to the phone call: "I didn't get the impression he was still unwell."
He said a different nurse rang up 10 minutes later, telling him to go to the hospital as soon as possible, and they arrived at 9am. This was on the day Child N was due to go home.
Mr Johnson says if Child N had been 'a bit unwell during the night', then he was worse now. He says the parents were told Child N was 'ok now', which was not true.
He says the parents 'might just remember the call' to tell them there had been an issue with Child N.
He says none of this was dealt with when Letby gave evidence to her own counsel. He says when cross-examined, Letby said she believed there was a note by Bernadette Butterworth on family communication.
Mr Johnson says this chapter of evidence is "littered with irreconcilable contradiction". He asks why it was played down to the parents that Child N was unwell.
He says that when Letby made the call, she would not have known Jennifer Jones-Key had already recorded Letby had been hands-on with Child N. In police interview, Letby said she "couldn't remember".
Mr Johnson says the nursing note was "completely misleading", and suggested S/N Butterworth had been unable to get through to the father of Child N. He says Letby came in early to sabotage Child N. He says if someone looked at the records, it would look like Letby 'had a peripheral role' in Child N's care that day.
The trial of Lucy Letby, who denies murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit and attempting to murder 10 more, is…
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Dan O'Donoghue
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Mr Johnson takes the court over the nursing note, which suggested Child N was desaturating on handover. Mr Johnson says the impression given by Ms Letby's note is that she was inheriting a problem of the child already desaturating
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Mr Johnson reminds the jury of the evidence of a doctor, who said the back of Child N's throat had 'unusual' swelling and that there was blood
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'Unexplained blood or swelling in throat of a child is another common feature in many of these cases',
Mr Johnson says 'These are not innocent coincidences'
Andy Gill
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Mr Johnson says Lucy Letby’s alleged falsification of medical records in the case of alleged victim N “indicates how determined Lucy Letby was to carry on her campaign of violence against these children.”
