Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the new evidence suggesting Lucy Letby may have harmed more babies in her care

New evidence suggests more babies in the care of killer nurse Lucy Letby were harmed - and in one case poisoned with insulin.

Letby was was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more, including trying to kill two with insulin at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says one of these babies was found to have suspiciously high levels of insulin after Letby had taken over the infant's care.

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But now, Gavin Gray, are UK correspondent, should be with
us now, Gaven you there? Hi? The hell, good stuff. Hey,
I'm good to talk to you. Now. What did you
guys make of Lydia Thorpe over in Australia yelling at
King Charles. Yeah, I think Look, I think they've kind
of expected one or two things in this trip. I
don't think it'll be the last either. I think it
was the fact that timing seemed to catch people out,

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because potentially that might have come as he was giving
a speech or something, the idea. It was just towards
the end when he was rejoining Camilla back on the stage,
sitting at the stage when she started shouting. I think
caught a few people by surprise. But yeah, I think
this is going to be a tough visit for them.
I think the King was desperate to go to Australia
because he wanted to sort of seal his succession to

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the throne. He hadn't been since he had been coronated,
so consequently, I think this has always better be one
of these tricky things. I don't think the media, although
they're running it big here, I don't think the media
is surprised by it. They're certainly not suggesting that the
King and his party was surprised by it. And I
just think it goes to underlining just the state of
affairs in Australia at the moment seeming to be quite

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a rise of republicanism. Listen, why do we think that
Lucy Liby may have actually killed more babies? Evidence has
now emerged that another baby might also have been poisoned
within hours of her taking over the boy's care. So
Lucy let Be is Britain's in modern history, Britain's biggest

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baby killer. She was found guilty of murdering seven babies
in attempting to murder seven others in a neonatal unit
in the northwest of England in just a one year
period between June twenty fifteen and June twenty sixteen. Now,
medical records are revealing that in another instance, the infant's
blood sugar level absolutely plummeted, with lab results later indicating

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that he had suspiciously high levels of insulin. And that
was all Lucy let Be, who was taking over the
boy's care. The BBC is also reported that potentially life
threatening incidents involving infants almost occurred on almost a third
of her shifts while she was training at Liverpool's Women's

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Hospital in a three year period. There has been huge
amount of criticism of the prosecution of the earlier case
seven murders and seven attempted murders, with some saying that
this is just the way evidence was portrayed. With the statistics,
there was no hard and fast evidence and indeed a
lot was really circumstantial evidence that she always seemed to

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be on duty when people young babies died in unexpectedly.
So maybe this additional evidence will help, But calm the
nerves of the judicial system. What about jk Rowling, a
woman who turns down two peerages, yes, and said that
if she was offered a third she would do exactly

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the same. Again, this is all because Kemmy Badanock, she
is one of the two hopefuls left potentially to take
over as leader of the Conservative Party now that Rishie
Sunak has stepped down, because Kemmy Badenock said that she
would give jk Rowling a peerage for her stance on gender.

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Now this is something of course. Jk Rowling has been
prolific in her particular opinion about gender and trans people,
and she has said that some have accused her of
being transphobic, and now some are accusing Kemmy Badanock of
being transphobic by deliberately suggesting she would give the author

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jk Rowling a peerage, so jk Rowling saying on X
that she'd been offered peerages quote once under labor, once
under the Tories, adding she still wouldn't take it if
honored for the third character. Kevin, thanks very much mate,
We'll talk to you in two days time. Again. That's
Kevin Gray, a UK corresponding For more from Hither duplessy Ellen.
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