11/2/2022
RawNews1st – Lucy Letby has been accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester hospital.
Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said she was a “constant malevolent presence” in the hospital’s neonatal unit.
Ms Letby, 32, of Hereford, denies 22 charges at Manchester Crown Court.
Family members of some of the babies concerned in the case were among those present in the court as Mr Johnson opened the prosecution.He said the Chester institution was a “busy general hospital like so many others in the UK”.However, he said that “unlike many other hospitals, within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, a poisoner was at work”.”Prior to January 2015, the statistics for the mortality of babies in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester were comparable to other like units,” he said.
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