Nurse Lucy Letby seen at cot of baby who collapsed, jury told

Nurse Lucy Letby told constabulary she did not question a spike successful babe deaths connected her neonatal ward and it did not request "to beryllium looked into", a tribunal has heard.

Ms Letby has denied murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital successful 2015 and 2016.

Manchester Crown Court heard she told constabulary the abrupt emergence was "a shock".

Officers besides asked her if she thought her beingness astatine the incidents was "bad luck", to which she replied: "Yes."

The tribunal heard constabulary interrogation summaries successful narration to a fig of infants successful the case.

In them, officers asked Ms Letby what she was reasoning successful June 2015 aft a "spike" successful babe collapses.

"That it was a shock," Ms Letby said.

Asked however she coped with the abrupt emergence successful fatal and near-fatal incidents, she said: "You conscionable person to find a mode to woody with it and transportation on."

She told constabulary she did not question wherefore the spike had happened arsenic she "didn't consciousness determination was thing that needed to beryllium looked into, it was conscionable a daze for everybody".

The tribunal heard earlier that Ms Letby was seen lasting astatine the cot broadside of a babe lad who collapsed six minutes aft she had a "frustrating" substance speech with a colleague.

The baby, known arsenic Child C, is alleged to person been the 2nd babe murdered by Ms Letby astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.

The assemblage has antecedently heard that connected the nighttime Child C collapsed, successful June 2015, Ms Letby was the designated caregiver for different babe successful nursery three.

Jurors person heard Sophie Ellis, the caregiver caring for Child C, went concisely to the nurses' presumption and whilst determination she heard Child C's show dependable an alarm.

When she re-entered nursery one, Ms Letby was already lasting adjacent to the cot and told her: "He's conscionable dropped his bosom complaint and saturations."

Ms Letby was asked by constabulary wherefore she was successful nursery one, contempt having different kid to attraction for successful nursery three.

She told officers: "I don't retrieve specifically erstwhile oregon wherefore I entered the room."

Ms Letby said she could person entered nursery 1 to transportation retired "checks" connected instrumentality oregon said she whitethorn person heard Child C's alarm sounding.

She agreed with detectives that she was "frustrated" astatine not being asked to enactment successful nursery 1 that evening.

The tribunal aboriginal heard that six minutes anterior to Child C's alarm sounding, Ms Letby was texting an off-duty workfellow to accidental she had wanted to beryllium successful nursery 1 due to the fact that it would beryllium cathartic for her and would assistance her to spot a surviving babe successful the abstraction antecedently occupied by Child A, who died the erstwhile week.

Ms Letby agreed with the interviewing serviceman she was "frustrated" and "upset" by the substance conversation, arsenic she was not receiving the emotionally supportive messages she expected.

Ms Letby was asked, successful her constabulary interview, "did you origin (Child C) to illness six minutes aft that conversation?"

She responded "no" and denied causing the babe immoderate harm.

Summaries of interviews successful narration to Ms Letby's archetypal alleged victims, twins Child A and B, were besides work to the court.

She told officers she could not explicate Child A's decease oregon Child B's adjacent fatal collapse.

When it was enactment to her that aesculapian experts had concluded the apt origin was an injection of aerial into their bloodstreams, she said: "I didn't bash thing deliberately to harm" some Child A and B.