Tomorrow's front page: A nurse murdered seven babies and attempted to murder ten more on her maternity ward, a court heard
The alleged victims in the ten attempted murder counts — over the same period — are five boys and five girls.Letby is also accused of trying to murder a baby girl three times, including twice on the same day.
“In that sense the hospital is like many others within the UK but unlike many other hospitals, within the neo-natal unit, a poisoner was at work.”Mr Johnson told the court: “Before 2015, the statistics for mortality in the unit were comparable to other like units. But over the next 18 months or so there was a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying and the number of serious catastrophic collapses.
Most of the events happened when Letby was on the night shift but moved with her when she was switched to days, he told the court. Mr Johnson said the first child to die, known as Child A, passed away the day after he was born at 31 weeks. “The medics realised at the time that their blood sugar had dropped and low blood sugar can have natural causes.
“The prosecution say that the only reasonable conclusion to draw was that somebody poisoned these babies deliberately with insulin.
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