In the latest Lucy Letby trial news, the nurse claims doctors pinned baby deaths on her to cover up hospital failings.
Letby, 33, named the senior doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital she alleges have framed her.
She denies murdering seven infants and trying to kill 10 others. The nurse, from Hereford, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court for the alleged offences, said to have taken place between June 2015 and June 2016.
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Prosecutor Nick Johnson KC, cross-examining for a second day, asked Letby: “Four doctors. A ‘gang of four’, let’s call them. What’s the conspiracy?”
Letby replied: “They have apportioned blame onto me.” Asked what the doctors’ motives were, Letby added: “I believe to cover failings at the hospital.”
They have apportioned blame onto me.
Dr Stephen Brearey, Dr John Gibbs, Dr Ravi Jayaram and one other doctor who cannot be identified for legal reasons were named by Letby.
Sympathy card
Furthermore, the court heard Letby wrote a sympathy card to pass on to colleagues attending the funeral of one of the babies. Letby is accused of killing the infant at the fourth attempt.
Police recovered an image of the card and the message inside from Letby’s phone. GPS data confirmed the location of the image’s origin.
Mr Johnson said: “You took a picture of a card, addressed to the parents of a child who had died in dreadful circumstances, at the place where she died.”
Letby responded: “The place is insignificant. My usual behaviour is to photograph things that I send or receive.”
Asked whether it gave her “a bit of a thrill” to photograph it where the child died, Letby replied: “Absolutely not.”
The trial continues.
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