‘Angel of Death’ serial killer nurse Beverley Allitt who murdered four children at a Lincolnshire hospital will ‘go before panel of experts today’ in first steps towards release
- Allitt was handed a minimum 30-year sentence in 1993 for the child murders
‘Angel of Death’ serial killer nurse Beverley Allitt will go before a panel of experts today in her first steps towards release, according to reports.
She will appear before a mental health tribunal where she will be assessed for a potential transfer to a mainstream prison for the first time since her sentence began.
The former nurse, now 54, killed Liam Taylor, seven weeks, Timothy Hardwick, 11, Becky Phillips, two months, and Claire Peck, 15 months, over the course of 59 days at Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991.
She was handed a minimum 30-year sentence in 1993 for murdering the four children and attempting to kill nine others.
However, she spent just a week in prison before she was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.
‘Angel of Death’ serial killer nurse Beverley Allitt will go before a panel of experts today in her first steps towards release
She will appear before a mental health tribunal where she will be assessed for a potential transfer to a mainstream prison for the first time since her sentence began
Allitt could now be moved from Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire (pictured) to a mainstream prison
Allitt could now be moved from Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire to a mainstream prison, The Mirror reports.
Allitt’s reign of terror: A timeline of the murders
February 23, 1991: Allit claimed her first victim, seven-week old Liam Taylor
March 5, 1991: She killed 11-year-old Timothy Hardwick after he was admitted to the ward having suffered an epileptic seizure
April 1991: She gave two-month-old Becky Phillips an insulin overdose after she was admitted to the ward for gastroenteritis
April 1991: One-year-old Claire Peck died after she was left alone with Allitt following an asthma attack
1993: Allitt received 13 life sentences
This means that Allitt could apply for parole six months after a potential move to the new prison.
But her victims and her families have said they feel ‘terrified’ at the thought of the killer going free once again.
Alan Usher’s daughter Kayley was just 15 months when Allitt attempted to kill her by injecting an air bubble under her arm.
Kayley survived but has been left with long-term health issues such as with fine motor skills, hearing and mobility.
Mr Usher told The Mirror: ‘Allitt should never have been in a hospital, she should have been sent to prison.
‘Can you imagine if she were freed? It would destroy Kayley. She’s be terrified, looking in cupboards and around the house because she didn’t feel safe.’
Alan and his wife Sharon adopted Kayley when she was a toddler and the family still live in Grantham.
Allitt took the lives of four children and tried to kill nine others by tampering with their injections.
Originally her crimes were suspected to be down to natural causes, but blood samples retained from nine of the children who had collapsed or died revealed that they had been injected with lethal doses of insulin, potassium or lignocaine.
After a lengthy trial, Allitt was found guilty of four murders and nine counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and was given 13 life sentences.
Alan Usher’s daughter Kayley was just 15 months when Allitt attempted to kill her by injecting an air bubble under her arm
Beverley Allitt enjoying her freedom as she practises her needlework in a top security hospital
Beverley Allitt pictured leaving court in 1991 after being arrested on suspicion of murder
It was claimed in mitigation that she was suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy.
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This is a syndrome where a parent or caregiver causes an injury, usually to a child, to then gain attention as the carer.
The paediatric nurse claimed her first victim, seven-week old Liam Taylor, on February 23, 1991, by injecting him with a large dose of insulin.
She killed 11-year-old Timothy Hardwick on March 5 that year after he was admitted to the ward having suffered an epileptic seizure.
In April that year she gave two-month-old Becky Phillips an insulin overdose after she was admitted to the ward for gastroenteritis.
One-year-old Claire Peck died after she was left alone with Allitt following an asthma attack, also in April 1991.
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