Lucy Letby’s defence has claimed there’s ‘no proof’ she is behind the deaths of seven infants.
Jurors at Manchester Crown Courtroom had been immediately advised blame had been ‘heaped’ on the nurse and to think about that ‘coincidence’ could also be at play.
Letby, 32, is at present on trial following accusations she murdered seven infants and tried to kill 10 extra on the neo-natal ward of Countess of Chester Hospital.
She denies the costs.
Ben Myers, defending Letby, advised the court docket she was ‘adamant she’s carried out nothing deliberately to hurt these infants’.
He mentioned: ‘This prosecution case is pushed by the idea that somebody was doing deliberate hurt, mixed with the coincidence, on sure events, of Miss Letby’s presence.
‘The truth that Lucy Letby has been current on the time of the deterioration of a kid has itself grow to be the reason of that deterioration, regardless that there’s no proof to indicate she has brought on that to occur.’
He mentioned in every of the allegations – whether or not it’s injecting infants with syringes of air, tampering with fluid baggage, poisoning, bodily assault or smothering – there was no proof of Letby being accountable.
Mr Myers confirmed the jury a prosecution exhibit, a grid with the names of workers on responsibility throughout the highest and throughout one facet the names of the kids allegedly attacked.
An X marked Letby being on responsibility on the time when a baby was mentioned to have been harmed or killed, eight occasions on day shifts, 16 occasions on night time shifts.
However Mr Myers mentioned this was a ‘self-serving doc’.
He claimed it doesn’t present the remedy every youngster was receiving, the well being of the child in query, collapses by infants when Letby was not current, shortcomings in care of others, how busy the unit was, and what Letby was doing on the time of every occasion.
Mr Myers additionally cited Put up-it notes, talked about by the prosecution earlier immediately.
Letby allegedly had allegedly written ‘I’m evil, I did this’ in addition to ‘I don’t need to reside. I killed them on objective as a result of I’m not ok to look after them’ on bits of paper.
Mr Myers argued: ‘That is the anguished outpouring of a younger lady in concern and despair when she realises the enormity of what’s being mentioned about her, within the second to herself.’
He added that on the time it was written she was coping with employment points, together with a grievance process with the NHS belief.
Mr Myers, pointing to Letby sitting within the dock, then advised jurors: ‘It is very important watch out that blame shouldn’t be heaped on that lady when there could also be others who’ve made errors or a system which has failed.
‘You gained’t get the solutions to this case this lady within the dock now. That is how she is and the place she is six years after beginning to face allegations like this.’
‘Anybody who approaches this as some type of a carried out deal has bought this very badly flawed.
Letby, initially from Hereford, denies all of the allegations.
The trial continues.
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