Lucy Letby insists she has ‘no recollection’ of baby girl’s near-fatal collapse, court hears [Video]

09:08 EDT 25 Jun 2024, updated 11:35 EDT 25 Jun 2024

Serial child killer Lucy Letby has insisted in court she has ‘no recollection’ of a baby girl’s near-fatal collapse.

The convicted murderer was accused today of ‘trying to hedge her bets’ in police interviews because she knew she had been ‘caught cold’ by the senior consultant on her neonatal unit.

She maintained throughout almost an hour of intense cross-examination her insistence that she could not recall the collapse of Baby K on February 17, 2016.

Letby, 34, from Hereford, is currently serving 14 whole life orders after being convicted last August of murdering seven babies in her care and attempting to murder a further six between June 2015 and June 2016.

She is now on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of the attempted murder of Baby K and has pleaded not guilty.