This is part of the mother's of E's witness statement. BBM below - the mother would have also had to make up the explanation for why there was blood - doesn't that seem fairly technical and detailed for a lie? And it can't have been another nurse as the defendant accepts she was with the baby as designated nurse the entire time. Mum would also have had to made up this entire narrative below, which is all evidenced by the phone call to her husband. Given it was an ICU ward (and we've seen how tiny they are), it makes sense no one else was around as it was a restricted area and LL was one of the only ICU qualified nurses.
She said she went up to the post-natal ward to express breast milk and have something to eat, 'between 7pm and 8.30pm'.
She then took the expressed breast milk "straight down" to the neonatal unit where her twins were.
She said she arrived there "a touch before nine o'clock."
The mother had drawn a plan of the neonatal unit layout, as she remembered it, to police. That is now shown to the court.
She tells the court she had gone into room 1, where the twins were, as was Lucy Letby, the only other adult in the room beside the mum.
She said she could her her son crying and it was "like nothing I'd ever heard before".
The mum walked to the incubator, to see blood coming out of Child E's mouth, and panicked as she "believed that something was wrong".
The mum, fighting back tears, tells the court which incubators her twins were located in - both in adjoining ones.
She said she heard "crying" - a sound which "shouldn't have come from a tiny baby. I can't explain what that sound was...horrendous. It was screaming more than crying."
She said she heard it in the corridor in the unit itself, and entered the unit through the door where the twins were.
Lucy Letby was "busy doing something, but she wasn't near [Child E]."
She said she immediately went to Child E and used a 'containment technique' which she had been taught, to make him feel calmer, but "it didn't work".
Child E "continued to make the same noise".
She said she was there for "about 10 minutes" in that room.
She said: "There was blood on his face, around his mouth."
She tells the court she was asked by police to draw, on a drawing of a child's face, where the blood was coming from.
She tells the court the blood was coming "around the mouth"
Lucy Letby was at the workstation at the time, the mum tells the court.
A video of the neonatal unit room one is shown to the court.
The mum, fighting back tears, tells the court which incubators her twins were located in - both in adjoining ones.
he mum said she asked Lucy Letby why Child E was bleeding and what was wrong.
She said Letby replied the feeding tube was rubbing the back of the throat and that would have caused the blood.
The mum said she accepted that explanation, but was concerned about it.
The mum said Letby "told her to go back to the ward", and she did what she was told as Letby "was in authority and knew better than me and I trusted her - completely."
"She said the registrar was on his way and if there was a problem, someone would ring up to the post-natal ward."
She said she accepted that explanation and returned to the post-natal ward.
Upon her return, she rang her husband as "she knew there was something very wrong".
"I knew I needed to speak to him, and tell him."
The court hears the telephone records, including timings, were obtained.
The call to her husband was made at 9.11pm, and lasted 4 minutes and 25 seconds.
She said she rang her husband about her concerns, and remained on the post-natal ward.
