Indian-origin doctor saves newborns, helps catch ‘evil’ U.K. nurse Lucy Letby | Oneindia News
An Indian-origin paediatrician in England, who helped catch a nurse convicted of murdering seven babies in her care, has said that the infants could have been saved had the hospital acted faster. Dr Ravi Jayaram helped convict a nurse found guilty of killing seven babies by a U.K. court on August 18.
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00:00 An Indian-origin paediatrician in England who helped catch a nurse convicted of murdering
00:07 seven babies in her care has said that the infants could have been saved had the hospital
00:12 acted further.
00:13 Dr Ravi Jayaram helped convict a nurse, Lucy Ledby, found guilty of killing seven babies
00:20 by a UK court on August 18.
00:23 Ledby, 33, was found guilty of the murder of seven newborn babies and also found guilty
00:27 of seven counts of attempted murder relating to six other babies by a jury at Manchester
00:32 Crown Court.
00:33 She will be sentenced at the same court on Monday.
00:36 Jayaram said that he and other doctors started raising concerns after three babies died in
00:41 June 2015 but were told to draw a line under the suspicions and apologise to her for alleged
00:47 victimisation.
00:48 They were also threatened with consequences, Jayaram claimed.
00:53 As more babies collapsed and died, senior medics like him held several meetings with
00:57 hospital executives to raise their concerns about Ledby.
01:00 Eventually, it was in April 2017 that the National Health Service Trust allowed doctors
01:06 to meet with a police officer.
01:08 Shortly afterwards, an investigation was launched that led to Ledby's arrest.
01:13 The UK's Crown Prosecution Service told the court that Ledby used a variety of methods
01:18 to secretly attack a total of 13 babies in the neonatal ward at the counters of Chester
01:23 Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
01:25 During her trial, which began in October last year, Manchester Crown Court heard that doctors
01:31 at the hospital began to notice a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying
01:35 or were unexpectedly collapsing.
01:38 The CPS presented evidence of Ledby using various methods to attack babies, including
01:42 the injection of air and insulin into their bloodstream, the infusion of air into their
01:46 gastrointestinal tract, force-feeding and overdose of milk or fluids, impact-type trauma.
01:53 Her intention was to kill the babies while deceiving her colleagues into believing there
01:57 was a natural cause.
01:59 Ledby was first arrested in July 2018 and subsequently charged in November 2020.
02:04 Among the mountain of evidence presented in court were mainly handwritten notes discovered
02:08 by police during their investigation, besides medical documents featuring falsified notes
02:14 made by the nurse to hide her involvement and social media activity to deceive her colleagues
02:18 were among the other pieces of evidence presented in court.
02:22 Ledby was found not guilty of two charges of attempted murder and the jury, many of
02:26 them visibly distraught at the tough case, was unable to reach verdicts on six further
02:30 counts of attempted murder.
02:31 Through the trial, Ledby claimed that she was being wrongly accused to cover hospital
02:36 failings.
02:37 The Cheshire Constability, which investigated the case, said it had been one of the toughest
02:42 cases for them.
02:43 After her arrest in 2018, the police also found at her home a post-it note that read,
02:48 "I am evil.
02:49 I did this."
02:50 and "I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough.
02:53 I am a horrible, evil person."
02:55 Meanwhile, Ravi Jayaram said that the lives of those babies would have been saved if the
03:00 police would have taken his concerns seriously.
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