Doctor tells court he had ‘feared retribution’ if he called police on Lucy Letby
A senior doctor told a jury he “feared retribution” from hospital bosses if he called police to say he suspected a nurse was killing babies.
Consultant paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram is said to have caught Lucy Letby “virtually red-handed” in dislodging an infant’s breathing tube in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Giving evidence at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday, he said he saw “no evidence” that she had done anything to help a deteriorating baby, Child K, before he walked into the unit’s intensive care room on February 17 2016 and saw the defendant standing next to the infant’s incubator.
Dr Jayaram said he heard no call for help
