Even as a doctor who has appeared regularly on television, Dr Ravi Jayaram may have felt some trepidation about his latest lead role. The consultant paediatrician, 56, who has appeared on the BBC’s The One Show and ITV’s Good Morning Britain, was the key prosecution witness in the trial of Lucy Letby over the attempted murder of a newborn baby girl.
Letby, 34, was found guilty on Tuesday of trying to kill the two-hour-old infant by tampering with her breathing tube on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital. She will be sentenced on Friday.
