Contents of the hand-written memos were presented in a Manchester Crown Court this week, according to theBBC.
“Well, ladies and gentlemen, that in a nutshell is your task in this case,” Johnson told the jury. “Whether or not she did these dreadful things is the decision you will have to make when you have heard all the evidence.”
Johnson previously said that child deaths at Countess of Chester’s neo-natal unit were statisticallycomparable to other unitsbefore January 2015, perThe Independent. The deaths, according to Johnson, then saw a “significant rise,” including a rise in “babies who were dying and in the number of serious catastrophic collapses.”
Defense attorney Ben Myers argued at the trial, which could last up to six months according to the BBC, that the Post-it notes brought in as evidence showed “anguish not guilt”— given that some read “I’ll never marry or have children” and “I haven’t done anything wrong.”
Countess of Chester Hospital.Anthony Devlin/Getty Images
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A year later, she was arrested again “on suspicion of murder in relation to the deaths of 8 babies and the attempted murder of 6 babies,” as well as “the attempted murder of three additional babies,” the police shared.
source: people.com
