UK - Nurse Lucy Letby Faces 22 Charges - 7 Murder/15 Attempted Murder of Babies #8

[sleuth777]

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Healthcare worker arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies

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[Kemug]

I forget the context now, but didn't LL say at one point that she had "got rid of the mother"? I think that may have been in reference to Baby E's mother? Doesn't make her a murderer, but again not very caring.

 

[annpats]

I forget the context now, but didn't LL say at one point that she had "got rid of the mother"? I think that may have been in reference to Baby E's mother? Doesn't make her a murderer, but again not very caring.

Definitely. It makes it sound like LL didn't think the mother had a right to be there with her new born child!

It really isn't the done thing to be thinking that way, much less telling a colleague well.

In fact, to me, it sounds like LL's thinking is a very egotistical here, and it comes across like she has divine right and wants sole access to the babies herself.

MOO.

 

[Sundial]

I forget the context now, but didn't LL say at one point that she had "got rid of the mother"? I think that may have been in reference to Baby E's mother? Doesn't make her a murderer, but again not very caring.

I’m sure I read that from the prosecutions point of view rather than LL saying this herself? Something along the lines of “once she had got rid of the mother.”

 

[Blondiexoxo]

Going off the alarming rate of deaths at the hospital from June 2015 I would not be surprised to learn that there were other babies harmed re June 2015 that there just wasn’t enough evidence to charge with IMO.

It just seems unusual to me that someone would begin a ‘killing spree’ with so many deaths in quick succession. I’d be more inclined to think that there were atleast 1 or 2 other occasions prior to baby A (if not more) where the perpetrator harmed for the first time, and made the decision to do it again. Baby A-Q sound to me like someone who has begun to act more recklessly being unable to contain the ‘urge’ anymore IMO.

Someone harming babies in a nicu environment, where there are other nurses and doctors etc I’d more expect them to start with their first victim, and have a cooling off period of around a month while they processed what they’d done, waited long enough to see if anyone thought the death was suspicious and decided to do it again. When it comes to harming children, even some of the most cold and calculated individuals have a hard time accepting what they’ve done, I could imagine someone taking a little time to go over the incident in their head, relive it and realise they don’t feel the remorse or guilt they thought they would. Then when some time had passed with no suspicions voiced from colleagues or parents, thought they’d got away with it and decided to harm again IMO.

This isn’t some mad man out on the streets who satisfies their urge to kill with no one around. This is happening in a work environment, where someone spends most of their days/nights. Around colleagues, aswell as other parents. IMO there seem to have been too many babies allegedly harmed or killed in the month of June 2015 for that to be the start. It appears more like June is when this person became more brazen, wasn’t taking as many precautions as they were previously, just had an overwhelming desire to do harm, and wasn’t even thinking about how that amount of incidents in such a short space of time could raise questions.

This amount of alleged victims all in June just doesn’t resonate as being an offender’s first time, even the most naive individual could see how just the June 2015 incidents so close together would raise suspicion.. I honestly do not understand how they didn’t. IMO that should have been when colleagues started questioning if something nefarious was occurring on the unit.
All MOO of course.

 

[Eloise]

Going off the alarming rate of deaths at the hospital from June 2015 I would not be surprised to learn that there were other babies harmed re June 2015 that there just wasn’t enough evidence to charge with IMO.

It just seems unusual to me that someone would begin a ‘killing spree’ with so many deaths in quick succession. I’d be more inclined to think that there were atleast 1 or 2 other occasions prior to baby A (if not more) where the perpetrator harmed for the first time, and made the decision to do it again. Baby A-Q sound to me like someone who has begun to act more recklessly being unable to contain the ‘urge’ anymore IMO.

Someone harming babies in a nicu environment, where there are other nurses and doctors etc I’d more expect them to start with their first victim, and have a cooling off period of around a month while they processed what they’d done, waited long enough to see if anyone thought the death was suspicious and decided to do it again. When it comes to harming children, even some of the most cold and calculated individuals have a hard time accepting what they’ve done, I could imagine someone taking a little time to go over the incident in their head, relive it and realise they don’t feel the remorse or guilt they thought they would. Then when some time had passed with no suspicions voiced from colleagues or parents, thought they’d got away with it and decided to harm again IMO.

This isn’t some mad man out on the streets who satisfies their urge to kill with no one around. This is happening in a work environment, where someone spends most of their days/nights. Around colleagues, aswell as other parents. IMO there seem to have been too many babies allegedly harmed or killed in the month of June 2015 for that to be the start. It appears more like June is when this person became more brazen, wasn’t taking as many precautions as they were previously, just had an overwhelming desire to do harm, and wasn’t even thinking about how that amount of incidents in such a short space of time could raise questions.

This amount of alleged victims all in June just doesn’t resonate as being an offender’s first time, even the most naive individual could see how just the June 2015 incidents so close together would raise suspicion.. I honestly do not understand how they didn’t. IMO that should have been when colleagues started questioning if something nefarious was occurring on the unit.
All MOO of course.

Re BBM There might be. I don't think there'd be any evidence, or any evidence left that would be enough to prosecute IMO
There's already one case that was dismissed (or she was found not-guilty of? I can't remember exactly) because of lack of evidence.

 

[Dotta]

But what can be done to prevent such situations?

2 nurses attending each baby?
Cameras?
Psychological screening of staff?
Parents/family watching 24/7?

I really don't know.

Broken trust of the public is irreparable

Moo

 

[JosieJo]

The haematology proffesor yesterday was very useful explaining how an air embolus would effect the skin and circulation

 

[LadyEdgeworth]

The haematology proffesor yesterday was very useful explaining how an air embolus would effect the skin and circulation

I agree, I don't remember a lot from GCSE biology but it was explained clearly and in laypersons terms so hopefully was straightforward for the jury too.

 

[Tortoise]

Re BBM There might be. I don't think there'd be any evidence, or any evidence left that would be enough to prosecute IMO
There's already one case that was dismissed (or she was found not-guilty of? I can't remember exactly) because of lack of evidence.

That was baby K. Baby K was transferred to another hospital and died a few days later. LL is accused of her attempted murder.

 

[Legal]

I can't see how to copy a comment from the previous post but Sundial mentioned about how the first reported incident came just after Dr Jayaram's first TV show was aired. I'd never heard of the show before (Born naughty) but out of curiosity, I googled the first episode. This was about a schoolchild who had made threats to kill other pupils. None of the other episodes seem to relate to killing, so I thought this was interesting, though possibly irrelevant.

Born Naughty? Season 1 | Radio Times

Children with serious behavioural issues get help from Dr Dawn Harper from Embarrassing Bodies and Dr Ravi Jayaram. Is it down to bad parenting or an

www.radiotimes.com

Summary
Honey, who is nine, has been permanently excluded from school after threatening to kill other pupils. Six-year-old Theo has violent tantrums at the slightest thing.

 

[Music2022]

With regards to the down syndrome comments made, I wonder if it is because down syndrome is linked with higher rate of diabetes so maybe it was brought up by LL as a direction for diagnosis for the sugar issues.

 

[Tortoise]

Going off the alarming rate of deaths at the hospital from June 2015 I would not be surprised to learn that there were other babies harmed re June 2015 that there just wasn’t enough evidence to charge with IMO.

It just seems unusual to me that someone would begin a ‘killing spree’ with so many deaths in quick succession. I’d be more inclined to think that there were atleast 1 or 2 other occasions prior to baby A (if not more) where the perpetrator harmed for the first time, and made the decision to do it again. Baby A-Q sound to me like someone who has begun to act more recklessly being unable to contain the ‘urge’ anymore IMO.

Someone harming babies in a nicu environment, where there are other nurses and doctors etc I’d more expect them to start with their first victim, and have a cooling off period of around a month while they processed what they’d done, waited long enough to see if anyone thought the death was suspicious and decided to do it again. When it comes to harming children, even some of the most cold and calculated individuals have a hard time accepting what they’ve done, I could imagine someone taking a little time to go over the incident in their head, relive it and realise they don’t feel the remorse or guilt they thought they would. Then when some time had passed with no suspicions voiced from colleagues or parents, thought they’d got away with it and decided to harm again IMO.

This isn’t some mad man out on the streets who satisfies their urge to kill with no one around. This is happening in a work environment, where someone spends most of their days/nights. Around colleagues, aswell as other parents. IMO there seem to have been too many babies allegedly harmed or killed in the month of June 2015 for that to be the start. It appears more like June is when this person became more brazen, wasn’t taking as many precautions as they were previously, just had an overwhelming desire to do harm, and wasn’t even thinking about how that amount of incidents in such a short space of time could raise questions.

This amount of alleged victims all in June just doesn’t resonate as being an offender’s first time, even the most naive individual could see how just the June 2015 incidents so close together would raise suspicion.. I honestly do not understand how they didn’t. IMO that should have been when colleagues started questioning if something nefarious was occurring on the unit.
All MOO of course.

I did think like this also, it's very perplexing that there were suddenly so many collapses leading to death in June 2015.

But having looked at the patterns of the charges I changed my thinking. It doesn't look like random out of control urges (imo), it looks targeted at certain babies, if the charges are proven. Baby I for instance was allegedly attacked four times between 30 Sep 2015 and 23 Oct 2015, transferring to another hospital for treatment, recovering, and coming back again, dying as a result of the fifth alleged attack. I also think the change to insulin for baby F, if the charge is proven, and the (alleged) control of his blood sugars/results recorded while she was on shift, shows she didn't particularly care if she witnessed his collapse or death, which is informative, imo.

There are no charges for 5 of the 13 months - July and December 2015, January, March, and May 2016. I don't think this was random, I think with what looks to be target (alleged) victims I think there was a specific aim here, as opposed say to just enjoying it, or attention seeking, and possibly a trigger point we don't know about her.

MOO and speculation.

 

[katydid23]

Lucy Letby trial: Blood abnormalities 'not cause of babies’ collapse'

BLOOD abnormalities were not the cause of the collapse of three babies allegedly attacked by nurse Lucy Letby, a court has heard.

www.chesterstandard.co.uk

Letby, 32, is said to have injected air into the bloodstreams of the infants while on duty at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.

The alleged injections are said to have caused air embolisms, in which gas bubbles enter a vessel or artery and can block the passage of blood.

On Tuesday, November 29, blood expert Professor Sally Kinsey told jurors at Manchester Crown Court she had been asked by Cheshire Police to review the cases of Child A, B and E.

The court has previously heard the mother of premature-born twins Child A and Child B had a rare auto-immune disease which led to an increased risk of blood clots.

However retired paediatric haematologist Prof Kinsey said the condition was not passed on to either her twin son or daughter.

Blood count results for both were also normal during their stay at the unit, the court was told.


Prof Kinsey said that reading the various descriptions of skin discolouration given by medical staff attending Child A’s fatal collapse “really cemented my concern”.

 

[Tortoise]

"Ben Myers KC, defending, said: “Your evidence of (Child E) is that there was no explanation for spontaneous bleeding. What you mean is in terms of haematology, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” said Prof Kinsey.

Mr Myers: “That doesn’t mean that he might not have had a gastrointestinal haemorrhage or some other reason?”

Prof Kinsey said: “I agree.”

Lucy Letby: blood abnormalities 'not cause of baby collapses'


Oh yes, that innocent bleeding that wasn't recorded in the nursing notes, or reported to doctors, according to the mother's and father's testimonies and their phone records.

The same nursing notes which had the mother visiting an hour late (with his milk according to the barrister), even though he wasn't to be fed according to LL's notes, and a junior doctor in another department giving advice to omit the feed he was due, which he said he would have consulted the registrar in the neonatal unit about if he had been called, and the mother would have had to guess that she didn't need to bring his milk at his feed time. IMO