The mother of a baby girl who killer nurse Lucy Letby attempted to murder said their “world fell apart and changed forever” when she died three days later. Child K was born “extremely premature” and her death following a planned transfer from the Countess of Chester to a more specialist hospital could not be attributed to Letby, jurors at Manchester Crown Court were told. Reading her victim personal statement from the witness box as Letby looked on, tearfully at times, Child K’s mother said: “The impact and reactions that we experienced from that day onwards have all been very different and continue to be a part of our lives that most people, including ourselves, struggle to understand, talk about or show support of.
” She told the court it was “a bolt out of the blue” when police called a year later to reveal their daughter’s death was under investigation. Child K’s mother went on: “We were in complete shock as from what we can recall my care and the care of (Child K) while under the Countess was superb and that within (Child K’s) most critical and needing time that anyone would think or try to knowingly hurt her was unthinkable. She was defenceless.
She was in the right place to be looked after. “And so, what ended up being the next seven-and-half years of investigation and the unknown began. “Thinking that (Child K) had just fallen into the timeline for consideration, to (Child K) being confirmed as a baby that they would be pursuing a charge f.
