Dad of Lucy Letby's tiniest victim sobs reliving moment he saw brain scan after attack

Speaking for the first time publicly, the father of Child G described seeing his daughter’s brain scan to find it was “all black” after the premature baby was attacked by Letby

The devastated dad of Lucy Letby’s smallest victim has told how the evil nurse left his daughter blind, unable to walk, talk, or swallow after trying to kill her by force-feeding her.

Speaking for the first time publicly, the father of Child G broke down as he described seeing his daughter’s brain scan to find it was “all black”.

The baby girl, born 15 weeks premature and weighing just 1lb, was the tiniest of all 14 babies Letby attacked during a year-long killing spree at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The dad wept as he told his wife now sleeps downstairs in a purpose built room for their daughter because she is at constant risk of choking to death.

Fighting back sobs, he said: “My wife and I provide the majority of her care and do so lovingly, she is our little girl, our fighter, our star. We have been besotted with her since the day she was born.”

On her 100th day in hospital, nurses bought balloons and a cake to celebrate Child G’s milestone as doctors told her parents all she needed to do was ‘get bigger’ and they could take her home. But on that day in September 2015 Letby launched the first of three attacks to try and kill her.

Letby tried to kill the infant by forcing so much milk into her feeding tube into her stomach that she projectile-vomited so hard it reached the other side of the nursery room.

Child G’s dad told the Thirlwall Inquiry into Letby’s crimes that subsequent tests showed his daughter still had 45ml of milk in her stomach after vomiting. This was far more than she should have had for a normal feed due to her size.

But the parents were not made aware of this until many months later when they learned the neonatal unit was subject to a police investigation. Instead they were told that their daughter had aspirated vomit which caused neonatal sepsis and had starved her brain of oxygen.

Prior to Letby’s attacks the youngster’s brain scans had been good with positive signs of her maturing brain.

The dad told how he had nightmares about his daughter choking to death and fears that Letby may have killed other babies on the unit and got away with it because “no one was there” at the time.

He said: “I thought it was just bad luck for our little girl… it never occurred to me that someone might have harmed our baby.”