News about Baby K

The trial of Lucy Letby - Episode 37: Dancing the dance

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 18, 2024
In this episode Caroline and Liz explain what Lucy Letby said when questioned by the prosecution about three of the alleged victims in the case - Baby I, Baby J and Baby K.

The trial of Lucy Letby - Episode 20: Baby K "It didn't really make sense to me why the tube became dislodged."

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 18, 2024
In this episode Caroline and Liz examine what the prosecution say happened to Baby K, an extremely premature baby girl who Lucy Letby is accused of attempting to murder by tampering with her breathing tube.

Lucy Letby, a child killer, has applied for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another six children but the judge has dismissed them

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 30, 2024
Lucy Letby, a child killer, applied for permission to appeal the convictions in September. However, a spokesperson confirmed that a judge in the Court of Appeal had refused this application. Letby, a mother from Hereford, was given 14 whole life orders with no chance of parole for the murder of seven newborn babies and the attempted murder of six others while working at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016.

Lucy Letby, a baby killer, has a key to her cell as a prisoner, describes her new life as "much like a hotel, but you're surrounded by criminals."

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 28, 2024
According to a study, evil baby killer Lucy Letby (left) was given a key to her own cell, describing her cushy new life on the inside as being like a 'hotel', but criminals surround you.' This comes five months after the gruesome was given a whole life term for the murder of seven newborn babies and the attempted murder of six others. If Letby, 34, feels threatened by her cell, she will lock herself away from fellow prisoners if they are threatened by them. Keys are said to the citizens of category A HMP Bronzefield (right) as a reward for good conduct on the inside.

As he poses with his pregnant wife 11 years after she appeared in a starring role, does anyone recognize it?

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 20, 2024
He rose to fame on the Disney Channel, but now he will be a dad. This actor, who is now 30, appeared in a comedy horror film My Babysitter's A Vampire in 2010 before appearing in a Disney series based on the film from 2011 to 2012. One of his early films appeared in the 2008 film Toronto Stories, an anthology film set in the Canadian metropolis.

Lucy Letby 'became prison friends with baby poisoner Michelle Smith and Shauna Hoare who helped kill 16-year-old schoolgirl Becky Watts'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 14, 2023
Lucy Letby (left) was reported to have bonded with Michelle Smith (right), a woman who murdered her own 42-day-old baby, and Shauna Hoare (centre), who was involved in the murder of 16-year-old schoolgirl Becky Watts. According to a report, the three killers had been playing board games together and sat down together at dinner tables. They were together 24 hours a day, and they were a well-known threesome and were obviously never apart,' they said. According to the outlet, the threesome got along fine because they all believed they were 'innocent.'

Prosecutors will determine if killer nurse Lucy Letby will live or die

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 25, 2023
Letby (pictured left and right) 33, was sentenced to a complete life term after jurors found her guilty of seven babies and six others' attempted murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016. However, the jury in her appeal at Manchester Crown Court was unable to reach a decision on six counts of attempted murder relating to five children last month. On Monday, a hearing will take place at the same court in which the Crown Prosecution Service will lay out its plans.

Could Lucy Letby have claimed an eighth victim?TV's Dr Ravi claimed killer nurse dislodged breathing tube of baby girl born weighing just 700g grams - who died three days after 'attempted murder'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 22, 2023
Between June 2015 and June 2016, the NHS nurse murdered five boys and two girls. However, according to prosecutors, she may have claimed her eighth murder victim - a young girl named Baby K. Letby, 33, was accused of trying to murder the tiny baby, who was born weighing just 1lb 8oz - by delving her breathing tube two hours after she died, causing her to die.

'Our daughter was tortured until she had no fight left in her': Heartbreaking statements of parents whose babies were murdered or maimed by Lucy Letby as they say, 'We discovered evil disguised as a caring nurse'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 21, 2023
On the same day she had been told her baby would be home by Christmas, one of the murder victims' mother detailed how her daughter was tortured by the killer nurse 'until she had no fight left in her.' The child, who had only been identified as Baby I, had been assaulted three times by Letby (right) before attempting on the fourth attempt. The father of two triplet boys who were killed by Letby described how their deaths 'destroyed' him both as a man and a father.' The boys' mother said she had only one photograph of her three children and concluded that Letby has 'destroyed' her life. A young girl who was left disabled, brain damaged, and blind after being assaulted by Letby would never have a sleepover, first kiss, or marry her, according to her devastated father. And parents of twins who were criticized by Letby said they never had to hold their son while he was alive. Letby murdered five boys and two girls between June 2015 and June 2016. Pictured left: Some of the texts Letby sent where she spoke of there being an 'element of fate' involved in the deaths of babies that jurors found she murdered or attempted to murder

Lucy Letby, the wounded victims who never had a chance against him

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2023
Letby (left and right) murdered five boys and two girls at the hospital where she worked in Chester between June 2015 and June 2016. She wanted one set of triplets and three sets of twins, including one baby girl who survived after being born in a hospital toilet at just 23 weeks gestation. Her diary is on display at the top of the page; photo at top right.

The making of a serial killer: From student nurse to ruthless murderer, a full timeline of the horrific crimes Lucy Letby committed in plain sight - ending with her conviction as the most prolific child killer in modern day Britain

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2023
MailOnline details Lucy Letby's horrific crimes in 'plain sight' of colleagues who trusted her as one of their own, beginning with her enrolment as an 18-year-old student nurse. The story comes to an end with her conviction and incarceration as a serial murderer, as well as the admission that police are now looking at the possibility that she assaulted other children earlier in her career.

Lucy isn't Lucy,' she says. Lucy,': And when three children died in a fortnight, Letby's boss didn't believe she was to blame.' However, this tragic dossier shows that she was left to murder many more babies

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 18, 2023
The Countess of Chester Hospital was accepted early summer 2015, with a young mother-to-be admitted. She had nine weeks before her due date, but doctors were so worried about her high blood pressure that they had to give her twins immediately by Caesarean section. The operation went well enough, with the boy weighing in at 3 lb 12 oz and his sister a fraction lighter. The child was born blue and floppy with a low heart rate, and was placed on a ventilator. Her brother was able to breathe on his own and was more stable. Both babies were immediately transferred to the hospital's neonatal unit, where they were placed side by side in incubators in Nursery One, which was reserved for the sickest of the new arrivals.

Lucy Letby trial: What are the 22 charges against the nurse accused of baby murders

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 9, 2023
A jury in Manchester Crown Court is also deliberating on 22 charges against Lucy Letby. The neonatal nurse, who worked at Chester Hospital, has been charged with seven infanticides as well as 15 counts of attempted murder between June 2015 and June 2016. After a year-long police probe into high infant mortality rates at the hospital, the 33-year-old, from Hereford, was charged in November 2020. She would later plead not guilty to all charges against her and went on trial on October ten last year, with the jury sent out to hear verdicts on July 10. One of the jurors was allowed to leave for personal reasons earlier this month, leaving 11 others with the same decision. Mr Justice Goss, the judge, told the company that he would accept majority decisions on Monday. But what are the full list of charges faced by the nurse?

Lucy Letby was one of only two nurses to attack two baby boys, according to the court

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 5, 2023
Lucy Letby (left) was one of only two nurses who may have killed two baby boys by contaminated their feeding bags with insulin, according to her murder trial today. Only the suspected killer and a colleague, Belinda Simcock, were working in the neonatal unit at the time the infants were attacked eight months apart, according to shift charts at the Countess of Chester Hospital. According to the court, Letby (right), 33, contaminated at least three TPN bags used by nurses to give babies intravenous feeds.

Lucy Letby, a nurse, testifies in court that she was in a different nursery at the time

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 16, 2023
As the baby was fighting for her life, Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby (left) said today that she had no recall of a paediatrician walking into a nursery and 'doing nothing' as she was discovered standing next to a baby's incubator and 'doing nothing'. Dr. Ravi Jayaram has previously told Letby's murder trial (right) in Manchester how he felt an 'irrational' compulsion to go and ensure Baby K was safe, even though Letby was briefly 'babysitting' her for a coworker. By then, he and some of his Chester Hospital employees had discovered an unexplained breakdown on the unit, as well as the fact that they occurred with Letby's arrival.

Doctors warned hospital chiefs nurse Lucy Letby may be 'harming babies eight months before removal'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 1, 2023
A court heard yesterday that doctors told hospital administrators that a nurse could be harming premature babies at least eight months before she was banned from work. Dr. Ravi Jayaram (inset) told Lucy Letby (left and right) that he and his coworkers had repeatedly asked senior officials to look at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit's unexpected deaths and deaths of infants. They were told it was'very unlikely anything was going on' and that they were not encouraged to'make a fuss,' as he explained.

Lucy Letby was'very worried' about the doctor's being alone with a baby girl

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 28, 2023
A court heard on Tuesday that a doctor said he was'very worried' over the prospect of nurse Lucy Letby being alone with a baby girl. Dr. Ravi Jayaram (pictured above) told Manchester Crown Court he was 'extremely worried,' and discovered Lucy Letby (left), 33, doing 'nothing' when the baby's oxygen levels were dropping. Miss Letby is accused of intentionally dislodging the infant's breathing tube shortly after Dr. Ravi Jayaram stepped into the nursery room. The suspected attempted murder took place at 3.50 a.m. during a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit, two hours after the baby was born prematurely in February 2016.

Lucy Letby trial: Doctor interrupted nurse 'as she attempted to murder newborn girl' jury hears

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 27, 2023
Dr. Ravi Jayaram (right) recalled the time he met nurse Lucy Letby (left), "making no effort to help" as a baby's oxygen levels began to decline. The nurse is accused of intentionally dislodging the child's respiratory tube just moments before the consultant stepped into the nursery room. Letby, 33, was working a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital's (inset) neo-natal unit when the suspected attack took place in February 2016, according to Manchester Crown Court. Child K was born at 2.12 a.m. and weighed just 1lb 8oz (692 grammes) when she was born by C-section and was taken into the unit due to her extreme prematurity.

Dead baby found in Coles bag belonged to foreign student who didn't know she was pregnant

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 6, 2022
After a newborn baby, who was referred to as Baby K, was discovered dead in a Coles bag, a coroner would look into a possible homicide. The baby's mother was an Indian woman on a student visa in Australia and was'surprised' to learn she had been pregnant,' according to her. A stock photo of a young woman looking distressed is shown on the left. The right is a stock photograph of a Coles bag.