Lucy Letby’s defence has claimed there is ‘no evidence’ she is behind the deaths of seven babies.
Crown Court were today told blame had been ‘heaped’ on the nurse and to consider that ‘coincidence’ may be at play.She denies the charges.
He said: ‘This prosecution case is driven by the assumption that someone was doing deliberate harm, combined with the coincidence, on certain occasions, of Miss Letby’s presence. He said in each of the allegations – whether it be injecting babies with syringes of air, tampering with fluid bags, poisoning, physical assault or smothering – there was no evidence of Letby being responsible.Mr Myers showed the jury a prosecution exhibit, a grid with the names of staff on duty across the top and across one side the names of the children allegedly attacked.
Mr Myers argued: ‘This is the anguished outpouring of a young woman in fear and despair when she realises the enormity of what’s being said about her, in the moment to herself.’
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