Letby is on trial accused of the attempted murder of a baby girl while she was working a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Convicted multiple murderer Lucy Letby has told a jury she has never intended or tried to harm any baby in her care.
The prosecution say consultant paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram walked into the unit’s intensive care nursery room, less than two hours after Child K’s birth, and said he saw Letby standing next to the incubator “doing nothing”, as the infant’s blood oxgyen levels dipped but no monitor alarms sounded.She swore an oath on the Bible and confirmed her full name, date of birth, her age and that she was 26 at the time of the alleged incident.
She denied saying Child K had just started to desaturate and replied "no" when asked by Mr Myers if she remembered being there at all at that time in those circumstances. Mr Myers said: “The allegation is that some time after 6:10am has a desaturation which you caused by interfering with the tube. Did you do that?”The defendant said she did not have any recollection of the third desaturation said to have taken place at about 7:30am, around the time of shift handover.
When asked about Child K’s tube slipping and her becoming desaturated, she said she was relying on the medical notes made by another nurse. Mr Myers asked Letby about a detective asking her: "Explain what you were doing when Dr Jayaram walked into the nursery".Mr Myers continued: “The question is put to you like a fact. Had you actually agreed you were there in the first place?”Mr Myers continued quoting a detective’s question to Letby: “‘Tell me what would have happened if Dr Jayaram had not walked in when you were stood by the incubator’.
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