Lucy Letby trial: Nurse tried to kill newborn baby twice, trial told

A caregiver accused of murdering babies connected a neonatal ward tried to termination a premature babe miss connected 2 consecutive nighttime shifts, a tribunal has heard.

Lucy Letby is charged with murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others astatine Countess of Chester Hospital successful 2015 and 2016.

Manchester Crown Court heard the attempts connected the girl's beingness happened erstwhile she was 5 and six days old.

Ms Letby, 32, from Hereford, has denied 22 charges.

Continuing the prosecution's opening statement, Nick Johnson KC said the lawsuit of the child, referred to for ineligible reasons lone arsenic Baby H, was analyzable by the sub-optimal attraction fixed to her.

He said she had a bid of aesculapian problems, which had known causes, but had suffered 2 inexplicable collapses connected 2 consecutive nights.

As Baby H was being fixed attraction successful the unit's intensive attraction section, Mr Johnson said Lucy Letby "would person had the screen of legitimacy for accessing her intravenous lines conscionable earlier she collapsed".

"Lucy Letby wasn't Baby H's designated caregiver connected the nighttime of the 2nd attack," helium said.

"A doc saw her giving oxygen and assumed she was the baby's nurse. He took the aesculapian past from her.

"We suggest that is simply a beauteous bully denotation of who it was that 'discovered' that Baby H was having problems."