A british nurse She began her trial on Monday for the murder of seven newborns and the attempted murder of ten others in an English hospital, after being accused of being “the common denominator” in the deaths of all babies.
Lucy Letbyaged 32, who worked in the neonatal ward of the hospital Countess of Chester, in the northwest of Englanddenied the murders of five boys and two girls and the attempt to murder of ten other babies between June 2015 and June 2016.
However, the prosecutor Nick Johnson told the jury in Manchester how the hospital’s neonatal unit saw a “significant” increase in mortality rate over 18 months from January 2015.
“It’s a hospital like many others in the UK, but unlike other hospitals and other nurseries in the country, there was a poisoner in the hospital ward in Chester,” he said.
Los pediatric consultants The center became concerned in June 2015 about the higher-than-usual number of newborn deaths.
Many of them were described as “unexplained” or “unexpected,” according to a report published in July 2016 by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
“After looking for a cause, the advisors realized that the deaths or fainting had a common denominator,” explained the prosecutor.
“The presence of a nurse, and that nurse was Lucy Letby,” she said, noting that many of the deaths occurred at night when she was on duty.
“When Lucy Letby was moved to daylight hours, the fainting and deaths moved to daylight hours,” he added.
Two babies were poisoned with insulin, according to study
Letby was arrested and subsequently charged in November 2020 as part of the investigation into the deaths of the newborns.
She had already been questioned about it twice, in 2018 and 2019, with no action being taken at the time.
According to a study, two babies were poisoned with insulin and “the only plausible conclusion” is deliberate poisoning, according to the prosecutor.
“This is not an accident,” he added. “They were all the work, in our opinion, of the woman sitting on the bench. She was the constant malevolent presence when things turned ugly for these 17 children,” she stressed.
(With information from AFP)