The 32-year-old denies murdering five boys and two girls
A jury has heard how a nurse accused of killing seven babies and trying to murder another 10 allegedly poisoned two babies with insulin days after they were born.
Opening for the prosecution, Nick Johnson KC told jurors that "within the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester a poisoner was at work". He told the court that many of the incidents happened during the night shift, and at the time Letby worked the night shift there was a rise in deaths and collapses.
The collapses and deaths of all the 17 children concerned were not “naturally-occurring tragedies,” the jury of five men and nine women were told today. They were all the work, we say, of the woman in the dock, who we say was the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children.”
Letby, who wore a blue jacket over a black shirt, stood in the dock as family members of her alleged victims sat in the public gallery. John, 76, and Susan, 62, - the defendant's parents - also sat in the public gallery.
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