Lucy Letby 'excited' to tell nurse baby had died

Lucy Letby erstwhile told a workfellow astir the decease of a kid successful an "excited" and "gossipy" way, a enquiry has heard.

Giving grounds astatine the Thirlwall Inquiry, Melanie Taylor said she could not retrieve which baby's decease Letby was referring to, but recalled however she spoke astir it.

She said: "It was astir successful a mode that she was excited to archer me, astir successful a gossipy manner."

The enquiry astatine Liverpool Town Hall is examining however the slayer caregiver was capable to execution and onslaught babies astatine the neonatal portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital successful 2015 and 2016.

Rachel Langdale KC, counsel to the inquiry, asked Ms Taylor if the mode Letby spoke astir the baby's decease struck her arsenic antithetic oregon disrespectful.

Ms Taylor said: "Yes, it did. There were parts of [Letby's] property that were a small unusual to me, truthful I took that arsenic a property quality betwixt maine and her."

The enquiry continues.