"He told Ben Myers KC, defending, the collapses were unique events 'that I'd never seen before in my career'.
Dr Gibbs continued: 'Medicine could never be an exact science and there were occasions when doctors were unable to find an explanation for a patient's demise.
'But this was happening again and again on our unit and that can't just be coincidence or bad luck. There had to be a cause.
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Dr Brearey told the jury: 'What struck me was the horrific nature of the whole day…I could see the trauma on the faces of the staff involved. The events of that day struck me as being very exceptional.'
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Dr Brearey had 'clearly' been aware of the association with Letby, and he recalled how Baby P's collapse had occurred near the start of a day shift. This had also been the case in the death of Baby O.
Questioned by Philip Astbury, prosecuting, he went on to point out that the collapses of Baby N and of a set of twins in the case, Baby L and Baby M also happened during day shifts.
At this point Mr Myers rose to say he had 'identified the fact that this going on to what Dr Brearey wants to say rather than simply answering the question'.
He was not lodging a formal objection, but suggested the paediatrician's evidence was following a pattern in which medical witnesses were 'expanding well beyond the question to say what they wish'."
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Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit over the course of a year from June 2015 to June 2016.
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