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Court hears killer nurse Lucy Letby was ‘caught virtually red-handed’ dislodging child’s breathing tube

Source: PA Wire

Killer nurse Lucy Letby has denied she further targeted a baby girl to mislead her colleagues into believing the infant was dislodging her own breathing tube.

Letby, 34, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of the attempted murder of a baby, known as Child K, while she was working a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit on February 17 2016.

She was convicted last August by another jury of the of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the

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