Lucy Letby asked to leave baby's grieving family, trial hears

Lucy Letby had to beryllium told much than erstwhile not to spell into a country wherever the parents of a babe she is accused of murdering were grieving, her proceedings has heard.

The caregiver is accused of sidesplitting 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Ms Letby, 32, denies 22 charges.

Manchester Crown Court heard from a elder caregiver who worked astatine the hospital's neonatal portion astatine the time.

She was a displacement person connected the nighttime a baby, referred to successful tribunal arsenic Child C, collapsed and aboriginal died.

Ms Letby was not Child C's designated caregiver that night. That was different caregiver called Melanie Taylor.

The elder caregiver told the assemblage that aft resuscitation efforts for Child C were stopped, Ms Taylor approached his parents astir creating a "memory box" astir him.

The elder nurse, whose individuality has been protected, asked Mr Letby to crook her attraction to different poorly babe connected the unit, the tribunal heard.

But Ms Letby went into the country with Child C's parents "a fewer times" and the elder caregiver asked her to travel retired and permission the household to the baby's designated nurse.

The elder caregiver was asked if it was immoderate portion of Ms Letby's work that nighttime to spell into the parents' room.

She replied: "Not that I tin remember."

She asked Ms Letby to crook her attraction to the different poorly babe much than erstwhile but could not retrieve however galore times she did this.

Under transverse introspection by Ben Myers KC, defending, the elder caregiver agreed that astatine this time, the neonatal portion was facing accrued request portion staffing levels were static.

She besides agreed with Mr Myers that Child C was successful a "potentially fragile condition" and fixed his size and prematurity "there was a hazard helium could die."

But erstwhile asked by the prosecution if the prime of attraction received by Child C was "in immoderate mode diminished" by the accrued request and static staffing levels, the elder caregiver replied "no".