Katharina Buczek
Moreover, less than twenty-four hours after the baby boy died, Lucy searched on Facebook for the child’s parents’ names at 3:52 p.m. And since she had only ended her shift at 8:00 a.m. that morning, Johnson suggested that Lucy’s Facebook search may have been “one of the first things she did having woken up.”
The court also learned about Child D– a baby who was allegedly murdered just eight days after Child C on June 22.
“The prosecution says that this was another case of injecting a child with air into the bloodstream. Three children had died, and one had had a life-threatening episode in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in a two-week period. Lucy Letby was the only constant presence,” Johnson stated.
And finally, the prosecution addressed Child E– Lucy’s alleged fourth murder victim who was a twin baby boy– who was found bleeding from his mouth on August 3, 2015.
That evening, at about 9:00 p.m., Child E was feeding well, and his mother decided to visit him in the neonatal unit. There, Child E was in the care of Lucy, along with his twin brother, Child F.
According to Johnson, the boy’s mother “interrupted Lucy Letby, who was in the process of attacking Child E.”
However, the mother did not realize it at the time. All she found was her son acutely distressed and bleeding from his mouth.
The baby’s mother was understandably jolted and claimed that Lucy tried to reassure her. Lucy allegedly stated that the blood was the result of a feeding tube-irritated throat.
Johnson also claimed that Lucy told Child E’s mother to return to the postnatal ward and stated, “Trust me, I’m a nurse.”
“We suggest she [Child E’s mother] was fobbed off by Lucy Letby. However, the mother was so concerned by what she had seen that she telephoned her husband when she got back to the labor ward,” Johnson said.
Sadly, Child E ultimately died early the following morning of August 4. And according to the prosecution, Lucy had made “fraudulent” nursing notes– calling them “false, misleading and designed to cover her tracks.”
