The British nurse who killed the baby experimented with various medical techniques to injure the tots during her five-year killing career, according to the chief medical expert at her trial.
Dr Dewi Evans said Lucy Letby, who was convicted last month of killing seven babies and attempting to kill six more at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016, used undetectable methods to carry out her horrific acts, including removing tubes and injecting air into her victims. .
Following the 33-year-old’s arrest in 2018 over the deaths of eight children at a Chester hospital, Evans said he was asked to review the notes of 48 babies, none of whom were included in the trial.
He found 18 involving cases, mostly involving babies whose breathing tubes had been removed or transplanted in 2014, which he believed was Letby’s initial method of choice for harming children.
“For so many breathing tubes to come out, and they can come out accidentally, but for so many to come out in such a short period of time in what I consider to be a good neonatal department, that’s very worrying,” he said. The Sunday Telegraph.
One case involved death from insulin poisoning, he added.
Dr. Dewi Evans said she believed one of Letby’s preferred methods of harming babies was to remove their breathing tubes. EyePress News/Shutterstock
“It wouldn’t surprise me if he had one or two more insulin poisonings where doctors didn’t measure insulin levels after death,” Evans said.
“If you don’t measure insulin levels then you can’t know if there is cheating. There is no doubt that there are more cases of insulin poisoning.”
Murders began piling up in Letby’s unit after he attended a training course that highlighted the dangers of air embolism, where air enters a blood vessel, leading to serious or fatal conditions such as stroke or heart attack.
Evans noted that the number of homicides began to rise after Letby took a training course that emphasized the dangers of air embolism.Getty Images
“As far as I know, there were no air embolism deaths before he went on that course,” he said.
“After he discovered that method, the death rate really increased.”
Prosecutors will announce Monday whether Letby, Britain’s worst child killer, will face a new trial on six pending counts of attempted murder in which a jury failed to reach a verdict.
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