Posted on 07/22/2018 7:22:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Beverley Allitt , now 49, was convicted of killing four children while working as a nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincs, in 1991. She is being held at Rampton high-security hospital and is said to be receiving 24 hour care after falling ill on Sunday.
A source told The Sun: ‘There are genuine concerns as to whether she’ll pull through.’ Allitt took her first victim, eight-week old Liam Taylor, in February 23, 1991 after she injected the child with a fatal amount of insulin. The ex-paediatric nurse went on to kill three more and critically injured nine others during the 59-day killing rampage at the hospital’s Ward 4.
The sudden rise in infant mortalities confused hospital management and created a frantic investigation into their deaths. Some children were left with life-long injuries resulting from the harmful injections.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
“...There are genuine concerns as to whether she’ll pull through...”
Not here.
C’mon sepsis! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Hope she does fast and very soon. Retribution and interesting she would die by contracting a disease that would kill her in a return to the scene of her criminal killing spree, a hospital. The ghosts of her victims strike back.
does = dies above. Typo.
Allitt was born on 4 October 1968 and grew up in the village of Corby Glen, near the town of Grantham. She had two sisters and a brother. Her father, Richard, worked in an off-licence, and her mother as a school cleaner. Allitt attended Charles Read Secondary Modern School, having failed the test to enter Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School. She would often volunteer for baby-sitting jobs and left school at the age of 16, taking a course in nursing at Grantham College.
Allitt had attacked thirteen children, four fatally, over a 59-day period before she was brought up on charges for her crimes. It was only following the death of Claire Peck that medical staff became suspicious of the number of cardiac arrests on the children's ward and police were called in. It was found that Allitt was the only nurse on duty for all the attacks on the children and she also had access to the drugs.
Four of Allitt's victims had died. She was charged with 4 counts of murder, 11 counts of attempted murder and 11 counts of causing grievous bodily harm. Allitt entered pleas of not guilty to all charges. On 28 May 1993 she was found guilty on each charge and sentenced to 13 concurrent terms of life imprisonment, which she is serving at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
Allitt's trial judge recommended she serve a minimum term of 30 years, meaning she would not be released until at least 2022 and the age of 54, and then only if she was no longer considered to be a danger to the public. This represented one of the longest sentences given to a woman in Britain, exceeded only by those given to Rose West and Myra Hindley. In August 2006, Allitt launched an appeal against the length of her sentence. On 6 December 2007, Mr Justice Stanley Burnton, sitting in the High Court of Justice, London, confirmed that Allitt must serve the original minimum sentence of 30 years. It was reported that some families of Allitt's victims had previously mistakenly believed that her minimum tariff had been set at 40 years.
Allitt's motives have never been fully explained. According to one theory, she showed symptoms of factitious disorder, also known as Münchausen syndrome or Münchausen syndrome by proxy. This controversial disorder is described as involving a pattern of abuse in which a perpetrator ascribes to, or physically falsifies illnesses in, someone under their care to attract attention to themselves.
In 2005 the BBC made a dramatization of the story, Angel of Death, in which Charlie Brooks played Allitt.
In 2008, Allitt's story was depicted in an episode of the crime documentary, Crimes That Shook Great Britain.
She was also investigated in the Channel 5 series of documentaries titled Born To Kill?, featuring as one of the few on the series to really be considered by experts as 'born with a pre-disposition to kill' as a result of her suspected Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
In 2011, she was featured in the series Evil Up Close 'The Ward Assassin'.
Rank amateur at baby killing.
LOL
Why did she do it?
Here in the USA Planned Murderhood & the DNC would have her pictures on TIME MAGAZINE no less than 6 times as a woman of great virtue plus be paraded on THE VIEW, Oprah and the usual daytime mind-numbing left wing talk shows as a female hero. They would also be given a post of director at that same mass murder company for her stellar dedication to Satan’s kingdom of destruction.
Sometimes they like the excitement that comes with a near death with doctors and nurses rushing around trying to save the patient. Sometimes they like deciding who lives and who dies. In one case two nurses made a sick game of it with one picking and the other doing the kill.
Humans can be sick freaks.
Arrest & Trial
By July 26, 1991, police felt that they had sufficient evidence to charge Allitt with murder, but it wasn’t until November 1991 that she was formally charged.
Allitt showed calm and restraint under interrogation, denying any part in the attacks, insisting she had merely been caring for the victims. A search of her home revealed parts of the missing nursing log.
Further extensive background checks by the police indicated a pattern of behavior that pointed to a very serious personality disorder, and Allitt exhibited symptoms of both Munchausen’s syndrome and Munchausen’s syndrome by Proxy, which are both characterized by getting attention through illness.
With Munchausen’s syndrome, physical or psychological symptoms are either self-induced or feigned in oneself to gain attention, while Munchausen’s by Proxy involves inflicting injury on others to gain attention for oneself. It is fairly unusual for an individual to present with both conditions.
Allitt’s behavior in adolescence appeared to be typical of Munchausen’s syndrome and, when this behavior failed to elicit the desired reactions in others, she began to harm her young patients in order to satisfy her desire to be noticed.
Despite visits and assessments by a number of health-care professionals while in prison, Allitt refused to confess what she had done. After a series of hearings, Allitt was charged with four counts of murder, 11 counts of attempted murder, and 11 counts of causing grievous bodily harm. As she awaited her trial, she rapidly lost weight and developed anorexia nervosa, a further indication of her psychological problems.
After numerous delays due to her “illnesses”, (as a result of which she had lost 70 pounds) she went to trial at Nottingham Crown Court on February 15, 1993, where prosecutors demonstrated to the jury how she had been present at each suspicious episode, and the lack of episodes when she was taken off the ward.
Evidence about high readings of insulin and potassium in each of the victims, as well as drug injection and puncture marks, were also linked to Allitt. She was further accused of cutting off her victim’s oxygen, either by smothering, or by tampering with machines.
Her unusual behavior in childhood was brought to light and the pediatrics expert, Professor Roy Meadow, explained Munchausen’s syndrome and Munchausen’s by Proxy syndrome to the jury, pointing out how Allitt demonstrated symptoms of both, as well as introducing evidence of her typical post-arrest behavior, and high incidence of illness, which had delayed the start of her trial.
It was Professor Meadows’ opinion that Beverley Allitt would never be cured, making her a clear danger to anyone with whom she might come in contact.
After a trial that lasted nearly two months (and at which Allitt attended only 16 days due to continued illness), Allitt was convicted on May 23, 1993, and given 13 life sentences for murder and attempted murder.
It was the harshest sentence ever delivered to a female but, according to Mr. Justice Latham, it was commensurate with the horrific suffering of the victims, their families, and the ignominy she had brought upon nursing as a profession.
Aftermath
The impact Allitt’s case had on the Grantham & Kesteven Hospital was so severe that the Maternity Unit was closed down altogether.
Rather than going to prison, Allitt was incarcerated at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottingham, a high-security facility housing mainly individuals detained under the Mental Health Act. As an inmate at Rampton, she began her attention seeking behavior again, ingesting ground glass and pouring boiling water on her hand.
She has subsequently admitted to three of the murders of which she was charged, as well as six of the assaults. The appalling nature of her crimes has placed her on the Home Office list of criminals who will never be eligible for parole.
There have been accusations, most notably by Chris Taylor, father of Allitt’s first victim, Liam, that Rampton is more like a Butlin’s holiday camp than a prison. The facility, which has some 1,400 staff to deal with around 400 inmates, costs taxpayers around $3,000 per week, per inmate, to administer.
In 2001 there were reports that she was to marry fellow inmate, Mark Heggie, although she is currently still single.
Most recently, she was the subject of a Mirror Newspaper inquiry in May 2005, when it was revealed that she received over $40,000 in State benefits since her incarceration in 1993.
In August 2006, Allitt applied for a review of her sentence which led the Probation Service to contact victims’ families about the process. Allitt remains in Rampton.
https://www.biography.com/people/beverley-allitt-17162398
She’s just ahead of her time. The libs will build a monument to her. Like Margaret Sanger.
Thanks for your reply. That “explains” it.
She is one of those folks that ought to get down on their knees every night and pray there is no Hell.
I hope it is very slow and very painful.
Karma
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