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Mr Myers refers to nurse Caroline Oakley's notes of skin discolouration for Child D at the time. He says there is nothing there to identify a discolouration that matches air embolus.
He says in cross-examination, she began to give colours such as 'red-brown', and "ended up saying 'I remember an unusual rash'".
He says Kathryn Percival-Ward [Calderbank] had said in 2018 police interview that [Child D] changed colour, was mottled, and had seen it before, but...it looked unusual'. He says her memory had developed by the trial, calling it a 'mosaic' and giving a more detailed description with 'oval markings meeting up with each other'. He says "five years later we have a lurid description".
He says he is repeating himself by witnesses giving more detailed descriptions five years later.
Mr Myers suggests staff had met up in the meantime to 'share recollections', and this 'almost certainly' happened.
He says for Dr Bohin, there had been lengthy cross-examination on air embolus, and it went 'increasingly circular' and 'self-feeding'.
He says Dr Bohin had said Child D had two non-fatal collapses by referring to research in dogs, pigs and rabbits, and the results were "variable". Mr Myers says those "vague assertions" does not give confidence as to what happened with Child D.
He asks why the descriptions of discolourations vary each time, and why Child D was not seen to be in distress before the final collapse [having been in distress prior to an earlier collapse].
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