Lucy Letby found caring for less poorly babies ‘boring’, trial hears

Nurse Lucy Letby found caring for less sick babies in hospital was “boring”, her murder trial has heard.

Ms Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.

The 33-year-old denies 22 charges at Manchester Crown Court.

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She is also said to have argued with a senior colleague when asked to work in an ‘outside nursery’ where babies were treated in preparation for going home.

The unit was split into four rooms – intensive care in nursery one, high dependency care in nursery two and the ‘outside nurseries’ of rooms three and four, the court heard.

On Tuesday, senior nurse Kathryn Percival-Calderbank told jurors that Ms Letby was “unhappy” if she was allocated shifts in either room three or four.

She said: “She expressed that she was unhappy at being put in the outside nurseries.

“She said it was boring and she didn’t want to feed babies. She wanted to be in the intensive care”.

Mrs Percival-Calderbank, who qualified as a nurse in 1988, added: “If anything was going on within nursery one you would find she would migrate there, as we would all do to go and help. She would definitely end up in nursery one to assist.

“It was more that we were worried for Lucy’s mental heath because it can be upsetting, emotional and sometimes exhausting as well at the end of a shift, if you’re constantly put in that stressed situation all the time.

“Sometimes you’ve got to come out of that environment and be in an outside nursery.”

She recalled an argument – some time before June 2016 – with Ms Letby who was “upset” at a shift allocation.

“Lucy went into the outside