Lucy Letby: Nurse sent card to grieving parents, jury told

Nurse Lucy Letby sent a sympathy paper to the grieving parents of a babe miss conscionable weeks aft she allegedly murdered the infant, a tribunal has heard.

She is accused of trying to termination the premature baby, referred to arsenic Child I, 3 times earlier succeeding connected a 4th effort connected 23 October 2015.

Ms Letby, 33, is accused of injecting aerial into her tummy via a feeding conduit astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.

She denies murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others.

Manchester Crown Court was shown an representation of a condolence paper Ms Letby sent to the household of Child I up of her ceremonial connected 10 November.

The paper was titled "your loved 1 volition beryllium remembered with galore smiles".

Inside, Ms Letby wrote: "There are nary words to marque this clip immoderate easier.

"It was a existent privilege to attraction for [Child I] and get to cognize you arsenic a household - a household who ever enactment [Child I] archetypal and did everything imaginable for her.

"She volition ever beryllium portion of your lives and we volition ne'er hide her.

"Thinking of you contiguous and always. Lots of emotion Lucy x."

The connection concludes with Ms Letby saying she was atrocious she could not be the funeral.

The tribunal was antecedently told that Child I was calved prematurely successful August 2015 astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital astatine the gestational property of 27 weeks and weighed 2Ibs 2oz (970g).

She was transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital aboriginal that month.

It is alleged that earlier murdering Child I, Ms Letby attempted to termination the babe connected 30 September and during nighttime shifts connected 12 and 13 October.

The prosecution said she harmed the premature babe by injecting aerial into her feeding conduit and bloodstream earlier she yet died successful the aboriginal hours of 23 October 2015.

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