in the neo natal unit at the countess of chester hospital in north west england between june 2015 to june 2016. she denies the charges. live now to manchester crown court and the bbc s rowan bridge. bring us up to date. this has been an extremely bring us up to date. this has been an extremely long bring us up to date. this has been an extremely long and bring us up to date. this has been an extremely long and detailed i bring us up to date. this has been i an extremely long and detailed trial and we are into the seventh month and we are into the seventh month and today is the first month time lucy b has given evidence that she appeared wearing a long black dress and was questioned by her casey, ben myers began asking her about her upbringing, training to be a nurse and then moved to the period between 2015 and 2016 which is the period she was accused of attacking the children and she was asked how many children and she was asked how many children she cared for in that perio
girl after he d gone to check on the baby s condition. let s go to manchester crown court and our correspondent judith moritz. today we had evidence notjust about lucy b herself, but also the way in which chester hospital is said to have dealt with doctorsconcerns. 0ne consultant said that although they raised the alarm, management put them under pressure not to make a fuss. , ., , , them under pressure not to make a fuss. , . , , fuss. this was the intensive care room at the fuss. this was the intensive care room at the countess fuss. this was the intensive care room at the countess of - fuss. this was the intensive care room at the countess of chesterj room at the countess of chester hospital where the sickest babies were looked after. it is where a tiny girl known as baby k was taken when she was born 15 weeks early in february 2016. when she was less than two hours old she was temporarily left in the sole care of lucy b. by then doctors on the unit had become concerned about th
felt extremely uncomfortable at the thought of her being left alone and where to look in on the baby. he said, you can call me hysterical, you can call me irrational, but that is how i felt. i got up to check on baby k to prove to myself that i needed to stop being ridiculous and that of course everything was going to be ok. but the doctor said the baby possum oxygen levels had dropped and lucy b was standing at the incubator not doing anything. the monitor alarms had not triggered and he saw the baby s breathing tube had become dislodged so he resuscitated her. the defence team have argued that the breathing tube may have become dislodged on its own because of the baby s movements. the consultant told the court that doctors raised their concerns to hospital management eight months before the nurse was removed from front line duty. baby k was transferred from chester to a different hospital where she died three days later. the nurse is charged with her attempted murder,
the moment that i should approach the unit she could hear screaming. i could hear my son crying and it was like nothing i had heard before. i walked over to the incubator to see he had blood around his mouth and i panicked, i panicked because i knew there was something wrong. it was a sound, she said, that shouldn t have come from a tiny baby. i cannot describe it. it was horrendous. more of a screen than a cry and she said as she went into the room the only person in that section of the unit was lucy b, the only person in that room but she was not at the incubator, she was across the room at the nurse s workstation and the mother described how she had asked lucy letby what was wrong, and she said it was most likely that the feed tube had been irritating the baby and that had caused a blood and she said she should go back to the postnatal ward, she said she should go back to the postnatalward, nothing she said she should go back to the postnatal ward, nothing to worry about and we will
attempted murder. in dc this disturbing video obtained by wt tg shows a group of teens it may be adults attacking an older woman on a d bus and then pushing her off. the woman who took this video said the victim told the group to stop cursing before things escalated. the dc metro police are investigating. police officers in philadelphia got targeted by bikers at a gas station sunday night. authorities say the attackers throw bricks and bottles of the officers trying to secure a stolen dirtbike. no injuries or arrests. in the uk more details emerging in the trial of neonatal nurse lucy b. she is accused of killing seven babies in trying to kill ten more at the hospital where she worked at this happen several years ago. accused of attacking twins by injecting air into their bloodstream s and the tins twin grandmother gave dramatic testimony about how the mom