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Lucy Letby trial told ‘certain’ babies can dislodge their breathing tubes

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‘Certain’ babies are capable of dislodging their own breathing tubes, a nurse has told the attempted murder trial of Lucy Letby.

Killer nurse Letby, 34, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of displacing the tube of a baby girl which is said to have led to a sudden deterioration in her condition during a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.

It is alleged she struck when the infant’s designated nurse left the unit to update her parents on the

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