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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Kim Pilling, PA & Abigail Nicholson

Murder accused nurse Lucy Letby denies she's a 'calculated liar'

The nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others has denied she's a "calculated" liar.

Giving her 14th day of evidence, Letby, 33, was accused of "deliberately misleading" jurors with a "sob story" over her removal from the job she said she loved. Letby continued to work at the Countess of Chester Hospital from July 2016 on clerical duties, up to when she was arrested two years later on suspicion of harming babies in her care.

She previously told Manchester Crown Court that she felt "isolated" and "cut off from my nursing family", as she was told she could not talk to colleagues - apart from two fellow nurses and a doctor who the Crown says she "had a crush on". On Friday, prosecutor Nick Johnson KC presented Letby with a file of messages and photographs from her mobile phone, together with diary entries, from July 2016 onwards.

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