Lucy Letby: Nurse ‘killed premature baby girl on fourth attempt’ – before sending parents a sympathy card

When Child I's medical alarm went off following a fourth attempt, another nurse found Letby next to the incubator, the jury was told.

The baby died that morning.

Following Child I's death, Letby and another nurse asked the baby's mother if she would like to bathe her daughter. Letby then came into the room whilst the mother was doing this and watched "smiling," the BBC reports. The nurse later sent a sympathy card to the parents and kept an image of the card on her phone. The court has already heard that Letby would search for the families of some of her alleged victims on Facebook after their deaths. Before she was charged in November 2020, Letby had been arrested on two previous occasions. Letby was initially arrested in July 2018 as part of a major police inquiry into the deaths of 17 babies at the hospital. She was quizzed on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill a further six. She was subsequently bailed pending further inquiries. But she was re-arrested in 2019 after being suspected of trying to murder another three infants.