The mother of a baby murdered by Lucy Letby has told how the killer did nothing but stand and watch as her child was dying , an inquiry has heard. The child serial killer attacked Child D three times by injected air into her bloodstream at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the early hours of 22 June 2015. Speaking at the Thirlwall Inquiry on Tuesday, the baby’s mother recalled the moment she watched doctors try to save her dying baby, with the killer nurse also stood in the same room.
She said: “Someone came to the room, a nurse, and she said, ‘You need to come now. Your daughter’s very poorly’..
.I couldn’t see my daughter. I could see [the doctor] holding her and trying to save her.
“There was a lot of people, one that was doing nothing useful, that was Lucy Letby , and she was just looking at us crumbling and crying.” The mother also shared how she had been told the night before that her daughter was beginning to get better, with doctors adding she could feed her in the morning. But giving evidence, the mother told the inquiry: “He [the doctor] came to us and he reassured us.
he said, listen, everything’s fine, and she’s much better. She’s come off the light therapy. She’s speaking up.
She seems to be more lively. She seemed to react as she should react..
.if all carries on, continue expressing milk, and if all carries on tomorrow morning, you can breastfeed her, and you can have a cuddle and that she’s on her way to recovery.” She added: “W.