Beverley Allitt

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Beverley Allitt

An English serial killer (1968- ) who murdered four children whilst working as a paediatric nurse in the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire (UK). Her MO was overdosing the children with either potassium chloride to evoke cardiac arrest, or insulin to induce hypoglycaemia coma. She was given a life sentence, which she is serving at Rampton Secure Hospital.

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Apart from murderers Dr Harold Shipman and nurse Beverley Allitt, I can't recall a more heinous crime by a medical professional than that of surgeon Ian Paterson.

CRIMES SO DREADFUL

A TORMENTED survivor of Angel of Death Beverley Allitt has issued a direct plea to David Cameron over her axed benefits.

I can still see face of evil nurse who tried to kill me... how is it she gets free care and I don't? ALLITT VICTIM TALKS FOR FIRST TIME OF TRAUMA; EXCLUSIVE

He worked as their Midlands reporter for 16 years, covering among many other stories the abduction of Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater, the arrest and trial of Lincolnshire nurse Beverley Allitt, who murdered four young children in her care, the Fred West murders and the trial of Rose West at Winchester Crown Court, and the Hungerford, and Dunblane shootings.

Journalist, 65, dies after cancer battle

She had been said to have been enjoying her life of relative anonymity at the hospital, where fellow patients include "Angel of Death" child killer Beverley Allitt.

KILLER MUM COMMITS SUICIDE; Twisted Theresa Riggi found dead in psych unit; SICK MUM FOUND DEAD IN HER CELL; Triple child-killer suffered severe mental disorders

Five, 8pm) provides a fascinating and often harrowing insight into the psychological profile of nurse Beverley Allitt, who is currently serving 13 concurrent life sentences for murdering four children, attempting to murder three others, and injuring a further six infants.

Tonight's

Killer nurse Beverley Allitt, the Angel of Death, is among 400 patients at the Nottinghamshire hospital.

Camera in pen plot at Rampton

The Clothier Report on Beverley Allitt (Clothier 1994) highlighted short staffing issues and the lack of specialist care.

Developing a paediatric recovery course

It was there, he claims, he met and had a relationship with killer nurse Beverley Allitt.

Cult leader forced lover into sex acts; Man claimed Blyth gran was priestess

Past and present patients include Soham murderer, Ian Huntley, former nurse Beverley Allitt, who attacked 13 children and killed four, Ian Ball, who tried to kidnap Princess Anne from her car near Buckingham Palace in 1974, and David Bradley who shot and killed four members of his family in Benwell, Newcastle, last year.

Natural born killer; Danger prisoner put staff in fear of lives

Other killers featured include Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, killer GP Harold Shipman - who may have ended the lives of more than 200 patients - and nurse Beverley Allitt, who attacked children in her ward at Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in Lincolnshire.

Killer now in print

FAMILIES of the victims of killer nurse Beverley Allitt have been consulted about her possible early release from jail.

Killer nurse's jail term may be cut

Former EastEnder Charlie Brooks stars in this real-life drama as nurse Beverley Allitt, who was convicted of killing four children and harming nine others at a hospital in Lincolnshire in 1993.