Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Lucy Letby going on trial over attempted murder of additional newborn

Lucy Letby, convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others, has gone on trial accused of the attempted murder of another newborn in her care.

The 34-year-old was found guilty in August last year of committing the crimes between June 2015 and June 2016, while working as a nurse in the neonatal unit of a Chester hospital.

The former nurse is now on trial at Manchester Crown Court charged with one count of attempted murder of a further young baby girl, known as Child K, in February 2016.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Letby has since denied the charges.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady's Are UK correspondent this evening evening.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hello, Heather, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are you following this case about the nurse who murdered
the babies?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, so this is very interesting because it's a retrial.
So Lucy let Be is her name. You may have
heard that name last year when she was convicted in
a separate case. So I'll just explain what happened last
year because it's important. Thirty four year old nurse hospital
in Chester, which is on the Welsh border up in
the northwest of England, and she was convicted of the
murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of seven more. Now, crucially,

(00:36):
the jury could not reach verdicts on six counts of
attempted murder. They were basically parked while she was jailed
for the fourteen crimes she was convicted of. So seven
murders and seven attempted murders she got fourteen life sentences
and she has been told she will die in prison now.
Of the six charges that the jury couldn't reach verdicts on,

(00:56):
what the prosecution have done now is they've come back
with one of those cases as a little baby girl.
They're all given a letter of the alphabet by Kay
a little baby girl who died in February twenty sixteen. Sorry,
she was attacked in February twenty sixteen, and the prosecution
are now saying that that was attempted murder committed by
Lucy Leppie. She denies the charges and the trial is

(01:17):
now under way and in the opening stages the prosecution
have said that all that evidence last year in her
convictions form a very significant part of their case in
this so it's attempted murder, which she denies.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Really interesting that the jury have been told that she's
already been convicted for murders, because generally you try to
keep those things separate, right, so that one accusation doesn't
doesn't tat the following jury.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I would say traditionally illegally yes, But unfortunately her face
has been all over every newspaper here in the past
twelve months, and you know, you could walk out onto
the street and say do you recognize this woman and
they would say, oh, isn't she that nurse? So I
think the lawyers and there have been lots of legal discus,
but I'm sure they've basically just said to the jury

(02:03):
that you know, you may reorganize this defendant or you
may know this name. This is what has happened. Yeah,
so it's but she's entitled to a fair trial, which
she will get. She denies the charge of attempted murder,
and the case continues.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
In this rice between this contition between Rishie Sunek and
Sir Kiyastama, to be the most normal is getting ridiculous, right,
has reached a new low point for the SkyTV stuff,
hasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, look he said it. You know, you wonder who's
advising Sunac because he was asked the question, you know,
what sacrifices have you made? And he stumbled and bumbled
as he just keeps doing. And then eventually when he
was asked to name one sacrifice he had made, he
said that he didn't have Sky TV basically Fox Tell
it's about one hundred and twenty dollars a month now,

(02:48):
and I used to work there, and I know the
sky system inside out. I was there for two decades.
He said that as a young person growing up, he
famously is the words he used famously, we didn't have
sky I think to even bring up subscription TV that's
one hundred and twenty dollars a month when there are
children in the UK right now on his government's watch

(03:09):
not getting two meals a day. There are two two
hundred food banks where people are going to get their food.
I mean it's staggering that he has even said this
and Starmer. I watched the debate last night between the
two of them in Grimsby and I thought Starmer absolutely
smashed it. I thought he had answers for everything. He
looked like a Prime Minister in waiting and the key

(03:30):
phrase he kept saying was country first, Party second. And
I think, hand on heart, the most true blue Conservatives
in the country for the last fourteen years, if they
were asked that question, could you truly say that your
people have put the country over the party? I don't
think they could answer that honestly.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, that's a fair point. Actually, Hey, Inda, as always,
thank you so much. We'll check you again. Nick's Tuesday
look after yourself. That's Indo Brady how UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
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