Katharina Buczek
“As soon as children were removed from the Countess of Chester Hospital and the sphere of Lucy Letby, they often suddenly and remarkably recovered,” Johnson stated.
However, the prosecution did reveal that Lucy’s interest in Child H allegedly did not stop after the baby was transferred out of her hospital’s care. Instead, records showed that one week after Child H’s collapse, Lucy searched for the baby’s mother on Facebook.
That same day– a day she was not scheduled to work– she also searched for the father of twin babies E and F, as well as the mother of Child I.
Following the detailed account of Child H, the prosecution then moved on to the case of Child I. And Johnson prefaced this by calling Child I’s case “an extreme example even by the standards of this overall case.”
The prosecution alleges that Lucy attempted to kill Child I four separate times and succeeded on the fourth and final attempt.
Child I had been born prematurely– weighing two pounds and two ounces– although medical staff had declared the baby girl to be in good condition.
Then, four inexplicable incidents occurred one after another– beginning on September 30, 2015.
That evening, Lucy was Child I’s designated nurse, and according to the baby girl’s mother, Lucy expressed concern about her daughter’s “distended stomach.”
However, according to Child I’s medical notes, Lucy claimed that the baby’s mother had brought this issue to her attention.
The baby girl was then reviewed, and medical staff said she “appeared mottled in color with a distended abdomen and prominent veins.”
Lucy then fed Child I milk at 4:00 p.m. that afternoon before an emergency crash call was issued just thirty minutes later. Within that short period, the baby girl had suffered desaturation, a plummeting heart rate, had been vomiting and struggling to breathe.
