I do really struggle with this though, the idea the hospital couldn’t possibly fathom it being intentional. I keep going over and over it….
According to the prosecution
Ravi Jayaram, a paediatric consultant, had been “uncomfortable” that Letby was alone with the 12-week premature baby (baby K) because he had “started to notice a coincidence between unexplained deaths, serious collapses and the presence of Lucy Letby”,
Then three months after the death of Baby K, in April 2016, Letby had been moved to day shifts “because the consultants were concerned about the correlation between her presence and unexpected deaths and life-threatening episodes on the night shifts”
Okay we have two scenarios here. 1. They expected intentional foul play so moved her to days to test their theory keep eye on her etc etc (so so wrong) Or 2. As many suggest, they thought it was accidental and incompetence on her part. However, if they thought the latter, would they then put her in charge of a student nurse during the day shift, as also stated by the prosecution.
They can’t have it both ways. Oh it must be incompetence but that same incompetent nurse can supervise our students?
I have mulled this over though, and think the way it played out and was allowed to continue was perhaps one or two consultants had their suspicions. They raised concerns but were knocked back from someone higher up. Eventually someone agreed to move her to days, as a way of pacifying those who had highlighted concerns, so essentially trying to make out they are doing something, and to stop any allegations leaving the trust. Those higher up didn’t take either possibilities seriously , incompetence or purposeful, so while they wanted to appear they were doing something they equally allowed letby to carry on as normal, including supervising student nurses. Someone somewhere imo has intentionally tried to sweep this under the carpet. Like there were two separate sides pulling against each other. One camp who thought Letby was behind all this and the other camp who wanted to avoid any scandal or just genuinely didn’t believe it to be true. I hope that person ,whoever they are, is held accountable after all this (if of course Letby is guilty). Because whether or not they believed the scenario, question marks were obviously raised before letby was moved to days. You don’t take those risks with such vulnerable lives, it’s always better to be safe than sorry. If letby is the cold blooded killer the prosecution is making her out to be, the day babies, had any seniors gone through the correct channels instead of keeping it in house, would more than likely still be here. So many failings it is hard to comprehend.