 Around half an hour later she was called to the nursery as Child D's oxygen levels had dropped, she had lost colour and a rash had appeared. Giving evidence from behind a screen, she told the court: 'I remember being on my break, I had only been gone half an hour. "I remember going into the nursery and saying 'what's happening?' "I don't remember specifically the exact rash but I remember I had not seen it before. It was dark, It was unusual. "The rash struck me. I had not seen that rash on a baby I had looked after. "I struggled to describe it. I remember it as a deep red/brown but different to mottling. Letby is accused of killing the babies between June 2015 and 2016 ( SWNS) "Sometimes when a baby is poorly they lose their colour and they have a mottled appearance all over, where this was just a rash specifically in those places. That is what stayed with me. "You don't really get rashes on babies." Her nursing notes recorded: "Discolouration to skin observed. Trunk, legs, arms, chin." A){kind=link}
Lucy Letby’s former colleague Caroline Oakley told Manchester Crown Court that when she got back from her break, the baby’s oxygen levels had dropped and she had an unusual new rash
A newborn baby allegedly murdered by nurse Lucy Letby had a rash never seen before by members of staff at the hospital, a court heard today.
The baby girl, known as Child D, is said to be the third child murdered by Letby in a two-week period, with another youngster suffering a life-threatening collapse during the same period.
Manchester Crown Court heard Caroline Oakley was designated to Child D at the Countess of Chester Hospital on the night shift of June 21 2015.
Letby, 32, was assigned to two other babies in the same intensive care room.