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10.40
I'm back at Manchester Crown Court this morning for the trial of Lucy Letby. Jurors currently hearing from a nurse, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who was on shift the evening Child B fell ill. She recalls that there was no concerns for her health when she began her shift
11.12
The nurse is telling the jury how Child B stopped breathing around 12.30am on a night in June 2015. The baby, which survived, broke out in similar 'whitey purple blotchy' patches to Child A. 'I just thought no, not again', the nurse told the jury
11.22
Notes from that night show how an emergency call went out to doctors. Child B was placed on an infant resuscitator and medicines administered. Within about 10/15mins Child B began to 'improve almost as quickly as she had deteriorated'
11.29
Lucy Letby's defence barrister Ben Myers KC is now questioning the witness. He asks her if there were times when the Countess of Chester, during the period June 2015-June 2016, was 'just too short staffed' 'Yes', the nurse replies.
11.44
Mr Myers is now asking the nurse about the circumstances of Child A's death. He asks whether she had been made aware, when starting her shift, that Child A had been without fluids and medicines for several hours due to various tubes being out of position. 'Possibly', she said
12.18
Circling back to the nurse's description of 'white and purple' patches, Mr Myers points the jury to past statements made by the witness - to police in 2018 - which make no mention of such patches. Asked to explain why they're mentioned now, but not then the nurse cannot explain
12.18
Mr Myers puts it to the witness that these descriptions of patches have come from subsequent discussions with other staff, rather than what was actually seen on Child A
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