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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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This time he reminded us of the shocking case of Beverly Allitt, a 22-year-old nurse who, in 1991, attacked 13 children at Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire, killing four, often by overdosing them with insulin.

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Young nurse Beverly Allitt was just 22 years old when she attacked 13 children on the children's ward where she worked, killing four.

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In Sir Trevor's first year at the helm of News At Ten, he reported the extraordinary case of Beverly Allitt, a 22-year-old nurse who murdered four children in her care and attacked nine more.

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Serial killer nurse Beverly Allitt is currently serving a minimum of 30 years in prison for the murder and abuse of children in her care.

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Serial killer nurse Beverly Allitt is currently serving a minimum of 30 years in jail for the murder and abuse of children in her care.

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A WOMAN left braindamaged by killer Beverly Allitt was locked in a police cell - because a care home could not cope with her.

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He was yesterday named alongside serial killer GP Harold Shipman and "Angel of Death" nurse Beverly Allitt on a most evil list obtained through freedom of information.

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Some of these women are "criminals" in terms widely accepted today in most of Western culture --including, for example, Beverly Allitt, a female serial murderer, and Ma Barker, head of a family enterprise of kidnapping and robbery.

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Other roles include Bleak House and Angel of Death: The Beverly Allitt Story.

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She appeared in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak Times and was much praised for her portrayal, in Angel of Death, of real life nurse Beverly Allitt, convicted for murder.

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Beverly Allitt, 39, was given 13 life sentences in 1993 for killing her child patients while she worked at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire.

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Beverly Allitt, who was given 13 life sentences in 1993 for murdering four patients, attempted murder of three and grievous bodily harm with intent on six, was ordered to serve at least 30 years.