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00:10I'm David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, and for over 30 years I've
00:17investigated the phenomenon of murder and what it is that might motivate someone to kill.
00:27Every murder case is different but time and again a deadly pattern emerges of warning signs and red flags.
00:40In this new series I investigate some of the UK's most harrowing murder cases
00:46to understand how and why these terrible crimes occur.
00:55This is Murder UK.
00:57This is Murder UK.
01:18Grantham is quite a small community.
01:20And rumours about worrying goings on at the hospital were swirling around the town.
01:30Most people working in the hospital knew that police had been coming and going and
01:34taking files away and taking statements from people and looking at patients' records.
01:39By early May the local media had picked up and were asking questions.
01:45The rumours start on Ward 4, the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital.
01:52So there's lots of really frightening incidences going on. Four very young children dying.
02:00Lots of other examples of the children becoming suddenly very, very unexpectedly, inexplicably, seriously ill.
02:08Within a general children's ward, nine needs for resuscitation, that's completely unprecedented.
02:15I worked in a very similar children's ward for six months and we never had a single sudden death that
02:22wasn't expected.
02:27Hospitals are places where there are sick people and sometimes those sick people will die.
02:33It's also an obvious point to make that healthcare professionals want to help people.
02:40They don't want to kill them.
02:41And therefore, when there are a sudden increase in the numbers of healthcare crises or indeed deaths on a unit
02:50or within a hospital,
02:51the last thing that people will think, oh, there must be a killer on the loose within the ward.
03:03The hospital were clearly confused.
03:06The staff did not know how to respond to our answers.
03:10And that was really, really worrying.
03:13They were probably worried about a lot of things at the time.
03:15A lot of unexplained events.
03:17And they were searching for answers and they didn't have any.
03:21Somebody very senior within the clinical side was put in touch with the CID in Lincolnshire and said,
03:29we think we need you to come in and have a look at things.
03:36The police were contacted.
03:39They were contacted via a telephone call to a detective sergeant at Grantham who got in touch with me.
03:48And I went to the hospital the following day on the 1st of May.
03:53I was met with two pediatricians, Dr. Porter and Dr. Nanyakara.
04:02They both took different positions.
04:06Dr. Nanyakara thought that whilst there were a high number of collapses, a much higher number than is normal,
04:15he felt that it was just a blip on the graph.
04:19The medical services, the hospital services were purely on trust.
04:26And we believe everybody is good unless proved otherwise.
04:30And our training is such that we always consider any medical condition to be medically explained.
04:43DSI Stuart Clifton begins looking into the file of a baby called Liam Taylor.
04:51Liam Taylor was a little boy of about seven weeks old.
04:55He went into hospital.
04:57There were concerned parents, Chris and Joanne Taylor,
05:01and they'd had the doctor out a couple of times at home.
05:06Liam Taylor was brought to the hospital by his parents because he was having breathing difficulties.
05:13On Ward 4, Liam is looked after by Dr. Nanyakara.
05:19Liam Taylor was admitted under my care and I agreed that he was ill, needing very close monitoring and specific
05:29treatment,
05:31even though we did not know specifically what was wrong with him.
05:35On the whole, of course, chest infections, children recover from them.
05:40They get them all the time and they recover from them.
05:42His was unusually serious, but he did seem to be on the mend.
05:47I used to come and see him quite often and assess him.
05:54With the help of the nursing staff, we showed very slight improvement.
06:06Liam's parents are reassured a nurse will remain by his side.
06:12At about five o'clock, two nurses told them that they were going to feed the little boy,
06:22who had to be fed through a tube because he couldn't take food normally.
06:27They decided that they would go home for tea.
06:33He was immediately tended to by Beverly Allett, who reassured his worried parents that he was going to be fine,
06:45that he was in a really good place, that they shouldn't worry.
06:49They returned a short time later and could immediately see that something was not quite right.
06:58The child was unclothed apart from a nappy.
07:03And one of the nurses, Beverly Allett, said that while she'd been feeding him,
07:07that the little boy had vomited and she'd had to go home to change her uniform.
07:14Speaking to Detective Inspector Neil Jones, Nurse Beverly Allett claims she has concerns about Liam Taylor.
07:25He was really, he was ill, very ill, very ill baby.
07:29And he had very severe bronchitis, pneumonia sort of thing.
07:34She was identifying the occasions when these children were dying or were seriously ill.
07:39She brought medical help to them straight away.
07:43He looked, blood, I kept blotches on his skin.
07:46As I asked David Wiles, the charge nurse, I looked at him.
07:49And David came and said, can you get a doctor?
07:51She was always in the right place at the right time and was saying the right things.
07:56So these parents had to believe in her and trust her and they did.
08:04The child was left with Beverly and things went very quickly downhill.
08:10And in fact, so seriously that he suffered a massive breathing problem, oxygen starvation.
08:21I could not quite explain why he suddenly collapsed.
08:27Neither could Beverly Allett.
08:30What happened to him to make him have a cardiac arrest?
08:34I don't know.
08:35And nor does anybody else.
08:38After a while, it becomes impossible to ignore what would be seen as a professional anomaly.
08:45There's always one particular nurse who's there when there is a crisis or who draws attention to the fact that
08:54there's been a crisis or who is attempting to intervene to prevent the crisis from becoming worse.
09:01And that professional anomaly in this case is Beverly Allett.
09:06To many people, she must have seemed like a dedicated caregiver.
09:11But then you begin to notice the pattern.
09:13These sudden splurges, these sudden increases in healthcare crisis always occur when she's on duty.
09:30In February 1991, Dr. Nana Yakara fights to save the life of seven-week-old Liam Taylor, the first of
09:41the collapsing children.
09:43I connected the monitor ventilator, gave the necessary intensive care and support.
09:51But unfortunately, we could not resuscitate him.
09:56The boy who was now suffering convulsions had got brain damage.
10:03Throughout that morning, the Saturday morning, they decide that they want life support, withdrawing, and they nurse the child until
10:18it dies in their arms on the Saturday morning.
10:23Dr. Nana Yakara requests a post-mortem and meets with his nursing team while he awaits the results, searching for
10:31answers.
10:33And I was quite surprised and I shared my continuing concerns about this and tried to get more information about
10:44any possible causes of death.
10:47I sat down with all the nurses and went through with each of them, right from the beginning to the
10:56end, what happened, what were the changes.
11:00Nurse Beverly Allett has been by Liam Taylor's side throughout his stay on Ward 4.
11:08Could you have gotten mixed up or neglected to do? Did you forget to do?
11:13Well, if I did, I wanted to find it on the drug chart. I had it all wrote down on
11:16a bit of paper what I had to do during the night.
11:20Age 22, Beverly Allett has been on Ward 4 just three weeks when Liam Taylor dies.
11:27They felt sorry for her because she was a young nurse, new to the job, and was, in the early
11:35stages, well liked by the remainder of the staff on that ward.
11:50Beverly Allett grew up in the Lincolnshire village of Corby Glen. She was one of four children, working class family.
12:00She, right from an early age apparently, always expressed an interest in nursing.
12:07The local pub landlord, Ray Mercer, remembers Beverly as a youngster.
12:13When it comes to holiday times, you're all meeting up, you're playing.
12:16Well, down Barleycroft Road, there was a little green.
12:19Beverly was quite a one, yeah.
12:21We'd actually, when things were happening, we were deciding what we were going to do.
12:25She would be at the back, watching what was going on.
12:28She has a reputation for being good with younger children in the village.
12:34She had the opportunity to start babysitting from families who were looking for young girls, or boys, to actually babysit
12:42for their children.
12:43To my knowledge, there was nobody who actually came out and said,
12:47oh, well, don't use Beverly because they're not very good with the children.
12:52There are, however, some concerns.
12:58She's faking illnesses, putting bandages on herself and not letting anybody examine what's underneath.
13:07And then she progresses on to a rather more extreme manifestation of this desperation.
13:18Beverly's history suggests deep-seated psychological issues.
13:23She convinces doctors she needs a healthy appendix removed.
13:31If you say that you're in pain then, it's very difficult to be absolutely certain that the appendix is normal.
13:39And you can end up having your appendix taken out just in case.
13:44And it soon got to the stage, in fact, where some GP surgeries refused to take her anymore as a
13:50patient.
13:50And she was being passed, if you like, from surgery to surgery all around the Lincolnshire area.
13:56Suspicion started to grow with her own parents that there was, in fact, nothing wrong with her at all.
14:02She just was, had a kind of attention-seeking syndrome.
14:10Beverly Allett has what we now call factitious illness disorder.
14:17She claims to be sick when, in fact, she's not.
14:20She demands surgical procedures such as having her appendix removed when her appendix is totally healthy.
14:29By having factitious illness disorder, what she is seeking is attention.
14:35What she's seeking is sympathy.
14:36What she wants is to be the center of everyone's attention.
14:42When the person with factitious illness disorder can no longer legitimately claim that they are sick,
14:49what they will sometimes do is they move away from having an illness themselves
14:54to saying that some of the people that they're caring for have that illness.
15:00And that's when things become really dangerous.
15:07As an 18-year-old, Beverly applies for a nursing course.
15:13She was befriended by a local nurse who talked her into nurse training.
15:19She did that nurse training at Grantham and lived within the accommodation provided up on the hospital.
15:29It was in this nurse's accommodation that a pattern of bizarre and disturbing incidents began to emerge.
15:37There were a number of what I can only describe as bizarre incidents within the nurse's home.
15:45There's a particularly nasty incident where faeces is discovered smeared on the wall and then some faeces left in the
15:55fridge.
15:57Nobody could show that she was directly responsible.
16:00She was certainly central to what was going on within that nursing home.
16:07On the ward, Beverly Allitt's performance was just as concerning.
16:12She was a strange girl anyway.
16:15She'd been 40 days sick in one year.
16:19She may not have been a very good trained nurse, but she was a trained nurse.
16:25For Beverly Allitt, the ward, the unit, is the ultimate stage on which she can perform.
16:33It gives her everything that she's seeking.
16:36It gives her status as a caregiver.
16:39But also, crucially, it gives her access to vulnerable people that she can manipulate so as to gain even more
16:48attention.
16:49And remember, I always say criminologically, even if we ignore the motivation, when you are dealing with a murder, you
16:59have to look at two things, access and opportunity.
17:03And Beverly Allitt has the access to these children and the opportunity to use that access to kill them.
17:13Beverly applies for work at Boston Hospital in Lincolnshire, but her application is rejected.
17:23Beverly tries to find work at other hospitals.
17:28Her local hospital was the Grantham and Kesteven District Hospital, and they were, you know, very short of staff.
17:36Even though there were question marks about her ability to perform the tasks that she was required to do,
17:45essentially, nobody else was interested in the job.
17:53Finally securing a nursing role, working in Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Beverly Allitt is desperate to prove herself.
18:04She was much more outgoing and willing to engage and, in fact, almost ingratiating herself with those people to try
18:11and reassure them, actually, that their child was in the best possible care.
18:16She comes across as straightforward.
18:20I think her lack of sophistication is easily interpreted as a good heart.
18:26She started in February 1991, and within a few days, the first of numerous collapses.
18:38Very, very quickly, children began to get ill and collapse.
18:43Straight after Liam's death, there were other patients coming in.
18:47But within a fortnight, in fact, almost exactly two weeks later, at the beginning of March 1991,
18:54there was another incident that was very upsetting and unexplained.
19:08Timothy Hardwick, who was an 11-year-old boy, he suffered from epilepsy.
19:16And he was in the care of Nottinghamshire County Council at a special school at Newark.
19:21He suffered a fit at school, followed by four more.
19:28Cerebral palsy is linked with a higher risk of having epilepsy.
19:32We know that Timothy Hardwick had epilepsy.
19:35We know that's why he was admitted to hospital.
19:39Whilst in hospital, Timothy is under the care of Beverly Allitt.
19:45At five o'clock, he was heard coughing, and Allitt was told to go and look at him, and she
19:56called a doctor.
19:58I suggested that do some basic blood tests and observe him closely and give him some oxygen and watch.
20:06There was no other major concern at the time.
20:11Timothy is left alone with Beverly as his only carer.
20:15And contrary to expectations, after a little while, she suddenly hits the, you know, the panic button.
20:22She calls the emergency resuscitation team and says he appears to be unconscious.
20:29He was going to be fine.
20:31Very shortly after the boy stopped breathing, the resuscitation team were called,
20:37but sadly they couldn't resuscitate.
20:45Timothy Hardwick, suffering from severe cerebral palsy, but by no means expected to be lost.
20:54And yet, just three hours after being admitted to Ward 4, he's dead.
21:11When interviewed, Allitt tells police there's nothing unusual about Timothy Hardwick's death.
21:18What about then Hardwick?
21:22That was South Pole's cerebral palsy, the boy.
21:26I don't know.
21:27He came in for 18 nothing.
21:31Of course, the hospital staff said to the police, we were very unlucky if we had even one death on
21:37the ward every year.
21:39The death of Timothy Hardwick so soon after the death of Liam Taylor on a unit that's used to having
21:47one death per year is clearly going to raise the temperature,
21:52raise a number of red flags for her colleagues, for hospital administrators and for any of the child consultants working
22:01on that unit.
22:02And so people are now beginning to change their focus from looking at a medical cause for these healthcare crises,
22:09these deaths, into something far more sinister.
22:13DSI Stuart Clifton and his team uncover more files, which suggest the Children's Ward isn't just experiencing misfortune.
22:23Paul Crampton, Bradley Gibson, Henry Chan, Becky and Katie Phillips.
22:31You look with Claire Peck.
22:33I don't know.
22:35It can't be no fault I'm making.
22:51When David Crampton takes his six-year-old son Paul to hospital, there are initially no major concerns.
23:00Paul was taken to hospital with broncholitis chest infection.
23:05And when it came towards the weekend, we were told that he was likely to be released within a couple
23:10of days, so either the Sunday or the Monday.
23:12This was the middle of winter, and by all accounts, it was a particularly harsh winter.
23:17So there would have been a lot of children coming in with these sort of infections.
23:24So I did see him on Saturday morning, and I felt he was really doing quite well.
23:32And I didn't feel that there was any great danger.
23:36On the 28th of March, there's bad news.
23:41Walked in the hospital, clearly feeling quite happy.
23:44The child was on the mend, going to be released within the next couple of days.
23:47And I walked into the hospital to find a scene of mayhem, people rushing everywhere.
23:56Paul, in the arms of a nurse, I believe at that stage, cold, grey, clammy, clearly in some distress.
24:03I did use some glucose, just as a temporary measure, and I subsequently found that the blood taken showed evidence
24:16of low sugar.
24:18The discovery of acute low blood sugar levels, hypoglycemia, accompanied by high levels of insulin, is rare in healthy children.
24:30And it's, therefore, a medical anomaly that would be picked up by an experienced clinician.
24:37And it's the first time, therefore, that people working on the ward have to start to consider the unthinkable,
24:44that these children aren't becoming ill because of natural causes,
24:48but because somebody is deliberately targeting them to have a medical crisis.
25:00Evelie Allis, who was in the room, said that Paul was Charles' hypo, or words to that effect,
25:06which I later found out meant she decided she thought he was hypoglycemic.
25:14So did you see Paul that day alone?
25:20No. Not alone. There was a physio, I was with him, or mum.
25:26There was always somebody in there.
25:29And less likely if mum woke up a coffee.
25:31She went forward, identified the problem very quickly, and so the medical staff could respond.
25:37And that was the only reason he survived.
25:42One of the doctors in the hospital saw babies with very low blood sugar, very high levels of insulin,
25:48and wondered whether it might be due to a medical condition.
25:52This medical condition is rare, and it usually only affects children.
25:55It's called an acidioblastosis, and what happens is your body naturally just produces lashings,
26:02far too much insulin.
26:05Other possible explanations are deeply troubling.
26:09One of the causes for unexplained low sugar was what we call intentional administration of insulin.
26:22But no one ever suspected that that was the case.
26:26I checked with the GP, the nursing staff, the parents, none of them had any suspicion.
26:38You could say that the people there were so busy dealing with the constant influx of new young patients coming
26:45in,
26:45they didn't have time to forensically analyse the sequence of events that had led up to two deaths and a
26:53near death,
26:53all within the space of three or four weeks.
27:01Transferred to another hospital, Paul Crampton survives.
27:05But now there are more files for DSI's Joe Clifton's team to consider about what's happening at Grantham and Casteven.
27:21In April 1991, two-month-old twin Becky Phillips is admitted to Ward 4.
27:31Becky Phillips had been taken into hospital for projectile vomiting.
27:36She was taken home by her parents, she'd become listless, lethargic.
27:42And then, in the night, I was called to the casualty.
27:49The parents had rushed her to hospital.
27:53And all attempts at resuscitation had failed.
27:56Tragically, Becky Phillips dies.
28:00Dr Nana Yakara believes it could be a case of SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
28:07Sudden Infant Death Syndrome used to be called cot death.
28:10It mostly affects babies in the first, sort of, six months of life.
28:15Two to three months old is a classic time for it to happen.
28:18It most often happens when babies are asleep.
28:22Following the sudden death of Becky Phillips, her twin sister Katie is brought in for observation.
28:28Now, there was absolutely nothing wrong with Katie and she was taken into hospital purely as a precaution.
28:37Ali is allocated the care of Katie.
28:42That afternoon, Katie suffers the first of her collapses.
28:48And then called for help from Queen's Medical Center, who actually came to collect her.
28:58And they took her over to Queen's Medical Center.
29:02Katie Phillips survives and her parents think Beverly Allitt is responsible for her recovery.
29:09They ask her to be Katie's godmother.
29:14She was so supportive of them and competent and capable that they made her the godmother to the surviving twin.
29:27She's a godmother as well as a nurse now.
29:30I mean, it's exactly what she's been craving.
29:35And that's the extent of trust, perhaps, the parents had on Beverly.
29:43So there would have been something to suggest that even the parents were convinced that Beverly at the time was
29:50equivalent to godmother.
29:53I think Allitt becoming Katie Phillips' godmother is very significant for a number of different reasons.
30:00But if I just think about that from the perspective of Allitt herself and how she must have interpreted that,
30:08it would have confirmed to her that her behaviour within this dreadful scenario where children are having healthcare crises and
30:19some children are dying,
30:20it would have confirmed her belief that that would make her the centre of attention,
30:26that would give her what she craves, her narcissism is being satisfied,
30:30it would have given her some control over the process, and it would have reinforced her behaviour.
30:36It would have said to her, you chose to do the right thing when you started to attack these children.
30:45I didn't really want to be close, but...
30:48So that can be very funny about who we let's look after, his daughter.
30:52And at times he'll say, I don't want so-and-so touching my daughter.
30:56Yeah, but is that because the twin sister died?
30:59I don't know. I don't think.
31:01Beverly is developing a strong trust with patients, parents and colleagues alike.
31:06People felt sorry for her.
31:09People, um, particularly, uh, as the collapses of children began to occur,
31:16because they recognised that, that she was a new nurse and was not used to seeing children collapse.
31:29She didn't come over as anything other than you would expect from a nurse.
31:34Caring. Obviously meticulous.
31:37She knew things inside out. She wrote things down.
31:40She was fairly softly spoken.
31:50Clare Peck, Bradley Gibson, Yik Hoon Chan, Kayleigh Desmond, and many more children collapse on Ward 4.
31:59Clare Peck.
32:01Clare was a lovely 15-month-old little girl that had had asthma almost from birth.
32:10She was left in the treatment room in this period of time with Nurse Allard.
32:16And within a couple of three minutes, the cry went up again that she'd stopped breathing.
32:25A one-year-old girl called Kayleigh Desmond, who had already been admitted to the ward with chest problems,
32:34suddenly and unexpectedly had a heart attack.
32:39Clare Peck.
32:41Beverly Allard had been at the bedside of this little girl when, when she collapsed.
32:47Only those children transferred to a different hospital survive.
32:52Because so many of the children who became ill there were being transferred on to Nottingham Hospital,
32:57staff there were starting to talk to their colleagues at Grantham and saying,
33:00What on earth is going on here? This is not normal. This is not right.
33:04It took a professor from Nottingham Hospital becoming aware, alert to the fact that so many cases, so many inexplicable
33:14cases were being transferred to him at Nottingham.
33:19It took this external party, the professor, to say to directly to Grantham, something's going on. If you don't contact
33:29the police, I will.
33:30The doctors on Ward 4 confront their superiors.
33:35We wrote a letter to the general manager, highlighting these episodes and our concerns, continuing concerns, and saying, we do
33:48need your help.
33:56DSI's Chalk Clifton is dispatched to Ward 4. Could the staff rota provide any clues?
34:05I instructed the team to prepare a chart which showed which nurses were on duty for each and every one
34:18of the collapses.
34:20When that chart was completed, it showed that the only nurse that had been there for all of the collapses
34:29was Nurse Beverly Allard.
34:35Beverly Allard is always at the centre of all this, of all this that's going on.
34:42But I don't think she will have been perceiving herself as being the force of evil that's making all this
34:52happen.
34:53Allard's presence at every collapse on Ward 4 since her arrival forces DSI's Chalk Clifton to act.
35:03I then took the decision that we would have her arrested and see what she had to say about the
35:11events.
35:12Within 42 of your working days, all those children had that many attacks between them.
35:21I heard a talk.
35:25Astounding.
35:26No reply.
35:28Absolutely unbelievable.
35:29No reply.
35:43Following the arrest of Beverly Allard, the police conduct a search of her accommodation.
35:54During the search, we found a hospital pillowcase, we found a used syringe, and we found a school-type notebook
36:09on the cover of which was written Ward Allocations book.
36:14The police can prove she was present at every collapse since her arrival on Ward 4.
36:23But the attendance evidence alone is not enough to secure a conviction.
36:30I understand that you were left alone for some time in the treatment room, is that correct?
36:35No reply.
36:36What were you doing?
36:38No reply.
36:39She did not leave any telltale signs, nor did she have any eyewitnesses.
36:46Police take another look at the file of Paul Crampton.
36:51Now, if you start looking at the other days when he has hyper attacks, one of the most common factors
37:02is the fact that you're dead.
37:05Mm-hmm.
37:06The police zeroed in on this case because toxicology tests are done on this boy.
37:14Samples that had been taken from him at the time, when they went to the police laboratories, showed an extraordinarily
37:21high level of insulin in his bloodstream.
37:29Now, they had done a blood test and they found something like 500 millimiles of insulin in this child's body.
37:36That level is a whole syringe, if you like, for being injected.
37:4015-month-old Claire Peck's blood sample also reveals high rates of insulin.
37:46It was found to contain 9,660 milli-units per litre of insulin.
37:52Now, in a child of that age, there should be something in the order of 10 to 15 milli-units
37:59per litre of insulin in the blood.
38:03So this is insulin that has been injected into this child.
38:11So we looked at hospital insulin, and we discovered insulin is kept in locked fridges.
38:19Three days before the first collapse of Liam Taylor, who was the very first in the series,
38:27the key to the fridge on the children's ward, Ward 4, had gone missing.
38:33Nurse Beverly Allard was the last person to have had it.
38:38And it started to look very much as if it hadn't really gone missing at all.
38:44Allard claims somebody else took the keys to the fridge containing the insulin.
38:50The staff nurse took them home with her, and that was the thing when they came.
38:55I thought of that, the whole bunch, because a staff nurse took them home with her on one shift.
39:00By mistake? By mistake, yeah.
39:03She distanced herself from all of the events, saying things like,
39:09I wouldn't do that. I wasn't even on duty that day.
39:15That was my day off. I was in the canteen when that occurred.
39:21The police initially believed they have only circumstantial evidence
39:26to take a case against Allard to court.
39:29DSI Clifton, however, feels confident they have the right person.
39:36She was released without charge.
39:41But I felt at that time that we'd got the right person.
39:46So I approached the hospital authorities with a view to having her removed from the ward.
39:55DSI Stuart Clifton reaches out to the families, revealing that a nurse is now under investigation.
40:03And then he told me that he had a reason to believe, or the police had a reason to believe,
40:07that Paul's attacks were the result of the maladministration of drugs.
40:12And I remember my words nearly perfectly, because I think I said something like that would explain a lot, wouldn't
40:17it?
40:18He met me on regular occasions, and as much as he could with the confidentiality of a case of such
40:26a serious nature,
40:26he kept me informed about how their inquiries were going.
40:31DSI Clifton's investigation uncovers a terrifying truth.
40:36The children on Ward 4 haven't been harmed by insulin alone.
40:47I got renowned experts to look at.
40:51And then on this little girl, Kayleigh Desmond, they found needle tracking under the arm
40:57and concluded that this little girl had been injected with air.
41:01The problem is that air is not supposed to be in your system.
41:06If it's injected, and it's very easy to inject it with a needle simply by pulling up some air,
41:11putting that needle into the vein and injecting it in,
41:14as little as half a teaspoon, when injected into your brain, can result in a stroke.
41:20Did you give it to me? No reply.
41:23Alec refused to talk.
41:25But for the Crown Prosecution Service, that didn't matter.
41:29They now had enough evidence to prosecute.
41:37There was a huge amount of anticipation around.
41:41People were queuing up to get into the public gallery.
41:45All of the victims' families attended trial, and they were there every day,
41:53as were many of the nurses that worked on that ward.
42:02She sat through the evidence initially, and then towards the middle to end of the trial,
42:14she didn't appear.
42:17And we were told that she was in hospital with some illness.
42:23She focuses only on what she wants to remember, on what she wants to feel again.
42:29The time when she was heroic, or the time when she was the centre of attention for whatever reason.
42:35Not the times when her actions led to the death of a baby or child.
42:43All the information was collected through a large number of experts.
42:51Police, forensic pathologists, expert witnesses from United Kingdom and outside,
43:00who collected all the information.
43:04As the evidence unfolded, I think that there was some astonishment,
43:11that we were able to pinpoint in detail what had actually occurred.
43:20The verdicts were dribbled out, if that makes sense.
43:24They didn't all come at once.
43:26But the jury convicted her of 13 offences.
43:34Beverly Allard is found guilty of four murders, three attempted murders,
43:41and six counts of GBH.
43:45The defence then put forward that she was suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
43:54What Munchausen's is, essentially, is an absolute desperate plea.
44:01Yes, for attention, but more than that, it's for somebody to care.
44:06So, the Munchausen's that we see, even in the very early stages of her childhood,
44:11the faking of illnesses, of all kinds of different injuries, etc.
44:19Part of the distorted, bizarre, disturbed thinking process is that the doing of harm is something good,
44:29because it generates the care and attention that is needed.
44:33Allard is sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years in prison.
44:42It was later reviewed, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy is now an explanation for crime,
44:54but not a cause of crime.
44:56Slight but subtle difference in the two.
45:01Beverly Allard's never shown any remorse at all.
45:04And when I asked her why she'd done it, she got up and walked away from me.
45:10She is the first British nursing serial killer.
45:15Allard serves her sentence in a high-security hospital.
45:20It just had huge repercussions for the whole of the medical profession,
45:26because we knew how much it would affect patient trust.
45:29The thought of someone who's trained and is paid to care for children,
45:37defenceless children, the thought of them betraying that trust and harming that child
45:41is something most of us can't comprehend and come to terms with.
45:48I think it's a shock to the system when we discover that not everybody that works within that environment
45:57is there for the right reason.
45:59And with that, let's see.
46:27Let's see about the Google Tables that is an episode of Japanese体-保en禅.
46:28It's הפnt annoyance B Makes trading at alta dinheiro.
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