Agreed, there is so much more nuance to the months of trial proceedings, and testimony, than is encapsulated in the click bait news.YEs, we are sure. In the trial, they showed the medical logs of all the attending doctors. Letby did not call about the bleeding infant until 9:45 pm.
It was shown during the trial that Letby did not contact the doctor about the bleeding baby, even though she told the mom that she had already called for the doctor at 9 pm. That was a lie and it was proven to be a lie in court.
Both parents testified about the bleeding crying baby, and showed phone records corroborating the call at 9 pm.
The mother told her husband about the baby crying pain, being inconsolable, and about Nurse Letby demanding that mom leAve the room because the doctor was on his way.
Letby denied that in court, and she denied that the mother came to the nursery at 9 pm with her expressed milk. But it was shown in court that there was a hospital feeding schedule showing that the mom was scheduled for a 9 pm feed appointment and the mom had expressed her milk at 8:30 pm.
So it makes perfect sense that mom would go to the nursery at 9 pm, AS SCHEDULED.
Letby tried to say that the doctor cancelled the Feed, but the doctor denied doing so, and showed the court his medical logs. They did not corroborate Letby's claim that he cancelled the feeding.
Letby FALSIFIED her own medical logs in order to pretend that the mom never arrived with milk at 9 pm. But she was caught in a lie during court.
Both of the parents, the midwife and the attending doctors denied Letby's claims.
This was the turning point in the trial, in my opinion. Once the jury heard the grieving, sincere testimonies from the parents, who had corroboration from phone records and the feeding schedule, they realised Letby was lying.
Why would a nurse lie about that timeline if she was innocent?
Lucy was the only person in sight and she was within a few feet of the crying, screaming infant. She was doing nothing to comfort or attend to the child, and she did not phone for a doctor to attend.
You have to understand that during the trial, there were 26 incidents, much like this one.
Also, whenever Lucy went on her 2 week holiday, no babies collapsed or died. On her last holiday vacation, a baby died on the day she left for vacation, then no collapses for 14 days, and then on the very day she returned, one died that morning and his twin collapsed that afternoon. That was a the day she was finally taken off the floor.
In addition to the completely over represented collapses, in my opinion, for one nurse, they often occurred with sinister coincidence on particular occasions, such as Father’s Day, the infants’ due date or other poignant occasions.
Sadly, outside hospital, if there are frequent unexplained collapses or life threatening events that occur always in the presence of one parent or carer, one would have to consider abuse (flagged in a recent Royal College of Paediatrics guide to detecting child abuse), and I don’t see why we wouldn’t hold medical professionals to the same if not greater standards than parents.
Moreover what will prove interesting to me is the investigation of further deaths and incidents under Letby’s care on other rotations or nursing placements - there will be more information to come, plenty of which Crown courts will also have insight into.
I do think she was becoming rather bold in her attacks and the intensifying frequency- all JMO - and I’m not sure this was a brand new playing field for her.