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A Guernsey paediatrician has given more evidence for the prosecution in the trial of a nurse accused of murdering seven babies in the UK.
Dr Sandie Bohin has been called as an expert witness by Cheshire Police in the case of Lucy Letby, who is linked with the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 16.
Nurse Letby (33) is on trial at Manchester Crown Court following her alleged involvement in the deaths of the seven babies and the attempted murder of a further 10.
She is accused of injecting the infants or 'pumping air, milk, and other fluids into the babies' she was caring for.
She denies all of the charges.
Pictured: The Daily Mail has reported that Dr Sandie Bohin and "fellow expert witness Dr Dewi Evans" appeared at the Lucy Letby trial this week.
The trial, which started last autumn, was scheduled to last six months. Dr Bohin has given evidence on previous occasions since October, detailing her opinion on the facts of the individual baby's deaths.
The MSG has previously confirmed that a locum consultant paediatrician was employed to care for Dr Bohin's patients in Guernsey, while she is giving evidence as an "expert medico-legal witness" in the UK.
Pictured: Dr Sandie Bohin is employed by the MSG. She is recognised as an expert in neo-natal care.
Yesterday, Dr Bohin told the Court that in her opinion the death of one of the baby's - known as Baby O - was attributed to an air embolus. She echoed the opinion given by another paediatric expert, Dr Dewi Evans, who had given the same cause of death.
Dr Bohin said she believed the air had been introduced in to the baby's body via a nasogastric tube. A nasogastric tube described by the NHS as 'a type of medical catheter that's inserted through your nose into your stomach'. It's intended to be used for limited periods to deliver substances such as food or medication to a patient.
Dr Bohin was questioned by Nick Johnson KC, for the prosecution, and cross-examined by Ben Myers KC, defending.
Mr Myers asked her about discoloration seen on Baby O's abdomen. Dr Bohin is reported as having told the court that such markings had been seen in other cases in the trial. She is also reported as saying that medical and nursing personnel "are sure they've not seen them before or since, but have said that they were graphic".
Pictured: Nurse Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of 10 more. She denies all of the charges.
Baby O was one of three triplets to be born at the Countess of Chester Hospital in June 2016. He died just two days later, with one of his brothers - Baby P - also dying while a patient at the hospital's neo-natal ward.
The trial continues.
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