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Lucy Letby killed one of a set of a triplets after initially destabilising him with an initial injection of air a day earlier, a jury heard today.
Baby P died after suffering a series of unexplained collapses at the Countess of Chester Hospital on June 24, 2016. His identical brother, Baby O, had died the previous day.
In the aftermath of the two deaths the infants' parents begged medics to transfer their surviving triplet to the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
Their plea was supported by one of the Chester paediatricians who had tried in vain to save Baby P's life.
She felt by then that Lucy Letby posed 'a mortal danger' to his surviving brother, and asked the consultant originally sent to Chester to collect Baby P to take him instead.
Nurse Lucy Letby (pictured) killed one of a set of a triplets after initially destabilising him with an initial injection of air a day earlier, a jury heard today
The woman doctor told the jury at Manchester Crown Court: 'Even though I didn't beg, and I found a professional way of saying it, in my heart I just wanted him to leave too because that's the only way he was going to live.'
Today Dr Dewi Evans, one of two expert paediatricians called by the prosecution, said he believed Baby P had initially been destabilised by the introduction of air at some point prior to an x-ray being taken at 8.09pm on June 23.
But it was the introduction of additional 'dollop of air' during the following morning that splinted
