Are we sure the delay was due to no one contacting the doctor?
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.
The mum returned to the ward and talked to a midwife and was very upset in her testimony in the Thirwell inquiry and the midwife kept coming back to her over the next 2 hours to reassure the mum, she then phoned her husband and took mum back down to the ward- this suggests at least this member of staff was also ringing the other ward and keeping in touch in the 2 hour window, did she not ask when the doctor would see the baby and question a delay? I’m not disagreeing that you heard that LL deliberately didn’t call the doctor- but I can’t find that snippet.
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?
It’s also worth remembering when the mum saw the blood on the babies mouth, Lucy Letby was at the work station (which is where you would phone for a doctor to attend)- which was in the corridor, not in the room with the baby.
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.
