We’d be here for weeks trying to list them all there were so many contradictions, some about the most petty things IMO..
The shredder she said in her police interviews she’d forgot she had one then on the stand she used it to shred bank statements. She then said in her police interview she’d only bought it recently, NJ pointed out she bought the shredder in April 2016, I imagine her police interview would have been in 2018 around the time of her first arrest so not exactly recent.. she also said again in her police interview it may have been her parents shredder.
Another moment that sticks out is her not knowing what an air embolism was in her police interview, on the stand NJ revealed she filed a Datix a couple of days after she had been asked not to come into work after the collapse of baby Q, in the Datix she claimed a port on one of the victims had been left open and that it was a risk of ‘accidental air embolism’ she also text a colleague about it being a risk of air embolism too. She had also recently done her intensive care training just prior to the death of baby A and this training would have involved the risks of AE.
She claimed on direct examination that she had PTSD caused in part by being arrested and ‘taken from her home in her pyjamas’, NJ told her she was wearing a blue lee cooper tracksuit when taken from her home and offered to show the video, she then said it was her first arrest when she was taken in her pyjamas, NJ offered to show the video and LL refused to answer.
LL claimed that she hadn’t altered medical notes, NJ showed examples where she had changed the times of certain events on the victims notes, she also wrote a note about a doctor visiting to check a baby over as they’d showed signs of decline, NJ told her that the doctor said they had made no such visit.
LL answered ‘I don’t recall’ multiple times whenever NJ pointed out a discrepancy and evidence that she had lied about something, this happened quite a few times sometimes over small trivial issues. She accused almost all of her colleagues of either lying or making mistakes, then would eventually say something like ‘that might be how they remember it but I don’t recall that’. Such as Dr J who came into the room and found LL standing over baby K who was collapsing with their tube dislodged, doing nothing.
She accused a gang of 4 colleagues of a conspiracy against her, but provided no evidence of conspiracy.
She denied texting in the nurseries and NJ put it to her multiple times she was texting while she was in clinical areas, a spree of texts were sent during the time she had recorded that she’d been feeding a baby that would have taken as she said ‘15-20 minutes’.
BM had claimed in his opening statement that sub optimal care, staffing issues and incompetence were factors in the babies collapses and deaths, NJ asked LL before he began questioning her about each baby if ‘staffing levels, medical mistakes or sub optimal care were a factor in the collapse or death’ of each baby. LL would in some instances go on to suggest that the unit was over staffed, colleagues didn’t know what they were doing at times and insinuate that another colleague had made mistakes, after having ruled these things out for that case already.
LL told the jury that she had PTSD and had been isolated from family and friends and lived a life of despair between the time of her redeployment and arrest. NJ presented photos of LL on days and nights out with friends and a certain doctor colleague who she claims she wasn’t romantically involved with but went on an away day to London and other outings with, doctor colleague was married.
LL claimed to have forgotten she had any taken any handover sheets home, she denies keeping them on purpose even though there were 257 stored in her home under her bed, in bags she was taking to and from work every day, in a box marked ‘keep’ and one ‘pristine’ handover note from 2010 in a keepsake box with roses on the lid.
LL claimed not to remember some of the babies, can’t remember certain collapses, but can remember she wasn’t in the room when they collapsed. She also searched for many of the parents on Facebook for up to around 2 years after the collapse/death of their child. She claims she searched for the parents of twins baby E & F after the death of baby E ‘to see how F was doing’ NJ pointed out that baby F was still on the unit at this time.
She claimed not to have been present at one baby’s collapse because she was caring for another child, NJ pointed out that this child has not even been born yet at the time she says she was looking after them.
There were lots more IMO. I’m not sure what days some of these things were said on, I’m sure they’re all somewhere on the Chester standard updates though. Some things were reported by Sky or Dan on twitter too, There were times where things were included by some reporters that weren’t mentioned by others MOO
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