Lucy Letby: Nurse accused of killing 7 babies allegedly force-fed premature girl ‘massive’ amount of milk
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CHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM: An accused serial killer nurse attempted to murder a 15-weeks premature baby girl by force-feeding her a "massive" amount of milk through a nasal tube, a court heard. Lucy Letby is currently on trial for allegedly killing five boys and two girls and attempting to murder five boys and five girls between June 2015 and June 2016.
Letby reportedly tried to murder the infant, referred to as just Child G in the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal ward in 2015, BBC reported. Dr Stephen Breary, who was the on-call consultant in the neonatal unit at the time, took the stand in Manchester Crown Court on December 13 and testified that Child G had been "improving" and was "stable" on September 6. But at 3.30 am on September 7, he was urgently called back to the unit because the infant had a "very large projectile vomit” that landed on the floor and a chair next to her crib. “This was not something I had witnessed before,” Dr Breary testified.