Thread by @MrDanDonoghue

Prosecutor Nick Johnson KC will continue his closing speech at the Lucy Letby murder trial today. The nurse is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further 10 between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital, she denies all charges

Mr Johnson begins with the case of Child O. In evidence Dr Andreas Marnerides, an expert in neonatal pathology, told the court Child O's death was a result of an "inflicted traumatic injury to the liver"

He said the severity of the injury was more consistent with that suffered in a road-traffic accident, adding: "I have also seen it in babies in the context of cases where they have suffered non-accidental types of injury."

Mr Johnson said the evidence shows Child O suffered a 'a forceful, violent injury'

Mr Johnson shows the jury this note, found in Ms Letby's home when it was searched by police. He reads the lines beginning 'today is your birthday' which is in reference to the baby

Mr Johnson is now quoting the evidence of Dr John Gibbs who previously told Manchester Crown Court that the deaths of Child O and brother Child P, who were part of a set of identical triplets, on successive days in late June 2016 became a "tipping point" for his team

At this time, Dr Gibbs told the jury he had "become increasingly concerned at the accumulating number of unusual, unexpected and inexplicable collapses that had been happening on the neonatal unit and that Staff Nurse Letby had been involved in all of them".

Mr Johnson says Ms Letby has tried to suggest there were problems with Child O in her evidence, where there were none.

He says 'she’s doing to you (the jury) what she’s done on the ward, trying to persuade you a problem existed where none existed'

Mr Johnson tells the jury that 'it’s obvious' on the afternoon of 23 June 2016 that 'Lucy Letby deliberately overfed' Child O.

He says that on that morning, Ms Letby was missing a doctor - who cannot be named for legal reasons

He says that Ms Letby's act of 'sabotaging' Child O was her way of 'attracting the attention of (the doctor who cannot be named)'