Lucy Letby trial: Mother found baby with blood on face, trial hears

A parent recovered her babe lad with humor connected his look making "horrendous" sounds the evening earlier his death, the proceedings of caregiver Lucy Letby has heard.

It is alleged Ms Letby injected aerial into the bloodstream of the baby, known arsenic Child E, portion astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital successful June 2015.

Ms Letby has been charged with murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others astatine the infirmary betwixt 2015 and 2016.

The 32-year-old denies 22 charges.

The nurse, primitively from Hereford, is accused of murdering Child E and attempting to execution his twin, Child F, the pursuing day.

The tribunal heard however the twins had been calved prematurely and Ms Letby was the designated caregiver for some boys.

One night, their mother, who was an inpatient connected the postnatal ward, decided to sojourn her sons successful the neonatal unit.

Child E's parent recovered her lad acutely distressed and bleeding from his mouth.

Giving evidence, she said: "I could perceive my lad crying. I walked implicit to the incubator to spot helium had humor coming retired of his mouth.

"I was panicking. I felt similar determination was thing wrong."

The parent said Child E's crying "was a dependable that shouldn't person travel from a tiny baby".

"I can't explicate what that dependable was, it was horrendous," she added.

The parent asked Ms Letby, who is said to person been stood astatine a enactment presumption connected the unit, what was wrong.

The caregiver is said to person told her that Child E's feeding conduit had rubbed his pharynx and caused the bleeding.

Ms Letby told her to spell backmost to the ward, the tribunal heard.

"She said the registrar was connected his mode and if determination was a problem, idiosyncratic would ringing up to the post-natal ward," she said.

Upon returning to the postnatal ward, the parent called her hubby to pass him arsenic she felt "there was thing precise wrong".

She returned to the neo-natal ward aboriginal connected that evening and sat successful the corridor, watching a squad of radical astir Child E's incubator.

The prosecution clarified this was astatine the clip Child E was being unsuccessfully resuscitated.

Following the decease of Child E, Ms Letby asked the parent if she would similar to bathe her son.

Through tears, the parent told the court: "I was conscionable broken. I couldn't. Lucy Letby bathed him successful beforehand of maine successful the neo-natal unit.

"After helium was bathed, helium was placed successful a achromatic gown.

"I conscionable retrieve being thankful arsenic we had nary apparel for him arsenic helium was truthful little.

"He was fixed backmost to us, and enactment successful his incubator, and that is wherever helium stayed."

The parent added that she was fixed a "memory box" by Ms Letby which "totally surprised" her and included a representation card, a fastener of his hair, a teddy and manus and footprints.

She said she was "so flooded with emotion" by that.

A tribunal bid bans the reporting of the identities of the children allegedly attacked by Ms Letby, portion identifying parents oregon witnesses connected with the children is besides banned.