Lucy Letby ‘did not intervene’ when baby became unwell – court

The consultant said when he went into the baby’s room, he found Baby K’s oxygen saturation levels were dropping and she was deteriorating.

He told the jury Letby, originally of Hereford, was standing by the incubator and not intervening. The ventilator alarm was not sounding.

Dr Jayaram said he asked Letby what was happening, and she replied: “Oh it looks like she’s desaturating.”

He said he gave the baby breaths with a mask and she quickly improved.

She was transferred to a different hospital later the same day. She died when she was three days old.

Letby is not alleged to have caused her death.

The nurse denies the charge of attempting to murder Baby K.

The jury of six men and six women has been told Letby was convicted at a trial last year of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six other infants at the Countess of Chester between June 2015 and June 2016.

The retrial continues.