September 3, 2025 • 40 mins
👩⚕️ She was the hospital's most trusted nurse—until patients started dying on her shift. 🏥 Behind her gentle smile lay a killer who turned medicine into murder, claiming dozens through "accidental" overdoses. 🔍 Exclusive hospital records reveal her deadly pattern: comforting families of victims she secretly killed. 🌍 Global investigation links her methods to other medical murders worldwide. ⚡️ The fatal mistake that exposed her lethal "care." ⚠️ Warning: Contains disturbing medical details and victim testimonies. 😱
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The following program contains graphic material. Viewer discretion is advised.
Beverly Allett was a trusted children's nurse. Nobody knew that
she stalked hospital wards with murder on her mind.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That somebody can be evil enough to destroy her young
children's lives as beyond bely.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
She manipulated staff schedules to be alone with babies. She
prayed on the most vulnerable In.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Terms of sadistic, manipulative crimes. It's about as bad as
it gets.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Villagers in a remote English community have stayed silent about
their infamous former neighbor and friend until today.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
She was just quiet, the young girl who got on
with all the other girls, who played normally.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
For the first time. Seventeen grooding hours of interrogation have
been tracked down, revealing her chilling determination to get away
with multiple child murder. I didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I don't know how well and true to anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But she did do it. Beverly Alid was the ward
assassin Ward four of a rural hospital in England. Children
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are dying mysteriously and yet more are believed to have
suffered suspicious attacks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
In the previous four years, there had only been one
or two deaths on that ward, we suddenly had incidents,
twenty six incidents in eight weeks where four people would die.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Police launch and inquiry and interview the staff. One nurse
beverlyal It is just twenty two, newly given a job,
always eager to please, always on hand in a crisis
and later under questioning, always vehement in her denials of
any wrongdoing.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Where you have got this kid that some armor has
been done to it, You are a prime suspect of
the moment. Everything points at you, And.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
What can I do today?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I didn't I've told you I didn't do it, and
I wouldn't dream of doing it to anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The seeds of Beverly Alett's wickedness were sown in an
unremarkable country village. No one could know of the evil
she will inflict, but it's clear she will go to
extreme lengths to get attention. A personality disorder which will
later develop all too tragically, is rearing its menacing head.
For now, she is the only one who suffers.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
She was the sort of little girl that always had
a cut. She would fall over. She wanted a plaster
little things. Wherever Bev was, something was happening in class.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
She's above average.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was in younger days very quiet at school, and
that they could see that she was quite right, and
they said she was actually quite a clever girl in
all subjects.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Clever enough to be accepted as a junior nurse. But
her training does not go well. She's often ill, missing
courses and classes. She fails her exams and is bitter
that she's turned down for a job at a large hospital.
But Grantham Hospital is desperately understaffed. They need nurses. She
gets a six month contract.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And once she was on that ward she then used
that's the opportunity to draw attention to herself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
On ward four a specialist children's unit, Beverly Alice is
determined to prove what a great nurse she is.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Beverly carried herself as a savior, an important person as
part of the plescue team.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But unknown to colleagues at home, her attention seeking behavior
is becoming more alarming.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
She'd done strange things to herself. She used to cathgorize herself,
she'd inflate abreast with water, she'd put hot water in
her mouth, she cut her legs.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
This pattern of behavior is often referred to as Munchausen's syndrome.
Beverly has a long history of mystery illnesses, changing doctors
when they can find nothing wrong, insisting that her healthy
appendix is removed. No one can know that this attention
seeking behavior can escalate to hurting others. The children in
her care are in great danger.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Beverly was really labeled with Munchausen's by proxy or what
we'd term us fabricated or induced illness, because of a
very distinct pattern of abusive behaviors, and also her intense
relationships with the parents of the children and her need
to be the center of the crisis when it occurred.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The more Beverly can hurt a child, the more praise
she will get when saving that child. Beverly als is
about to play Russian Roulette with the lives of children.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Lord Fall was a very dangerous place while Beverly was
working there. She had maintained a sustained pattern of abusive
behaviors that were dangerous to the people she was caring for.
If she were with them unsupervised, children would have been
at risk.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Children like baby Paul Crempton, his case will become pivotal.
He suffers an asthma attack. His parents take new chances,
they rush him for treatment.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
He was taking him more as a precaution. He was
a young child, five months old. Clearly you're not happy
about the child in a hospital. But we didn't think
he was seriously ill, and of course we were told
he was coming home the next day.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I did see him on Saturday morning, and I felt
he was really being correct with and I didn't feel
that there was any great danger, and that he could
even go home.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The following day, Paul's parents returned to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Just unbelievable. We walk in feeling quite happy, and then
all of a sudden, there's people washing everywhere. And the
child he thought was coming on the next day is
clearly seriously or in the arms of a nurse, cold
gray clammy, clearly in some.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Distress circulatda And that doesn't please to me. He was ready, ready, poorly.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Paul is hypoglycemic and about to go into a coma.
He could die at any moment, luckily for him. The
hospital's star nurses on duty, Beverly Alas.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
She's been identified by the other nurses as an angel,
as a savior. She was always in the right place,
at the right time and was saying the right things.
So these parents had to believe in her and trust her,
and they.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Did Everlyalite it was in the said that Paul was
Charles hyper She decided she thought he was hyper glycemic,
so she was the person who diagnosed the.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Problem with death or real threat. A senior magic applies
glucose to a syringe and tries to find a vein.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I had, in fact difficult getting green as access, but
I didn't manage to do that, and I did give
some glucorth.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
He quickly recovered, and I recall that within a very
short space at time he was sat on the bed
playing with his toes.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The little boy survived, and the only reason he survived
is because Alet identified the problem very quickly and notified
senior nursing staff.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
At no point to Paul's parents or anybody else suspect wrongdoing.
Why would they. He was ill and his condition deteriorated
before a nurse suggests the cure.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The creation of the high drama that's focused on someone
else but also yourself as rescuer totally diverts any attention
or sensation you may get from your own feelings of trauma, distress, confusion.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Paul's parents firmly believe that their boy's life has been
saved by the prompt actions of nurse Alet, if only
they had known that a month before, a baby boy
had inexplicably fallen ill. Seven month old Liam Taylor was
also admitted with a minor chest infection. He died. The
attending nurse Beverly Alet.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Liam had died of a matthew heart attack as till
the coroner considered it to be a natural cause of death,
which shocked me and I could not believe and accept
that otherwise healthy someone may call baby who in my opinion,
did not have any structural heart problems, could have died
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of heart attack.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
When Lisa confronted with the tragedy of Liam's death, Beverly
al had displays concern at seeing her patience so ill.
In tapes never before released, she can be heard to
subtly pass any possible blame to somebody else on duty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, Liam Taylor, what involvement did you have with
that one?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Liam?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I specialed him one night, I did a night due
to the.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Extra and what happened was that it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Was ill, very ill, very ill.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Baby he had very severe broncolitis pneumonia sort of thing.
It looked like a blotches on his skin, and so
I asked David Dyle's a charging neist. I looked at him,
and David came and says, can you get a doctor?
And while David was in iPhone, and the doctor shouted
cardiac arrest while I was at the nursery station, and
so I'd put a call out for that instead. David
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Boyles was a night charge nis.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
In fact, it was always Beverly who was on hand
while a child was particularly vulnerable. Eleven year old Timothy Hardwick,
a boy with a disability so severe it means he
can only make grunting sounds, is admitted to Ward four
following an epileptic fit. The staff wrote her does not
have Beverly Allott working on the ward that day, she
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should not.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Have been there. He came in and also for about
two o'clock, and he met Allett at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Not all of those tended to by nurs sallets will
meet their death. Will Timothy Hardwicke be one of the
lucky ones. Timothy Hardwick is the latest patient on Ward
four to be left in the hands of Beverly allot
his power less to defend himself as she approaches him.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She should have been somewhere else, but she went into
that six bedded run and she's suffocating, and there isn't
any doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
When asked for an explanation about what had happened, Nur
Salad remains cool under pressure.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Timothy was an eleven year old born who had cable paul'sy.
Do you rememberous boy? Timothy died? What did you do
to him?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Already? Paul Crampton has been moments from death and it's
his condition which is again worrying.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Senior staff I was called earth an emergency to say
that Paul Crampton had collapsed.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
The hospital were clearly confused. The staff did not know
how to respond, and that was really really worrying because
the consultants had no idea why Paul had suddenly become ill,
and they were searching for answers and they didn't have any.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Doctors inject Paul with glucose and as before, he recovers,
but Paul's parents need answers and his mother is growing suspicious.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
We've brought a child into a hospital with a slight infection,
and now we'd suddenly got a child that was desperately ill,
but seemed to recover, and then was desperately ill again.
I wanted to know why. Whereas cass solutions problem was
more intuitive. She was very clear that this was not
a problem because Paul had a medical problem, but because
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something had gone wrong in his care.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Everyone is anxious. Monday dawns Paul is still fine. Ward
four relaxes Beverly and it's weekend shift is over and
she goes home. She lives locally, growing up in nearby
Corby Glenn. For the first time, a villager has agreed
to talk about Beverly.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Tell the truth. Beverly was a quiet one year would
actually when things were happening, we were deciding what was
gonna do, she would be at the back watching what
was going on. I mean, she was just a quiet
young girl who got on with all the other girls
and played normally.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
As she grew older and menacing nature emerged.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
She was the leader. And if you didn't if you
didn't do what she wanted you to do, then you
wasn't part of their group. And you would literally be told, well,
we're not part of it. So Beverly never had any friends.
Nobody wanted to play. She was the actually aggressor.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But not such an aggressor that people did not trust
her with their children. It was in her home village
that Beverly Anne had first learned how precious children are
to parents and how grateful they can be to those
who care for them.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
She loved looking after children, babysitting, and I think this
is what brought into enjoying working with children, that well,
this might not be a bad life going into And
I think you were just trying to see what sort
of job she wanted to do, and I think an
opportunity came up.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That opportunity was to become a trainee nurse, and were
better to gain approval than on a children's ward. Back
on duty, she's again on the scene when inexplicably poor
and falls dangerously ill for a third time. Doctor and
Yakara calls an urgent case conference. Even as the team
are meeting, Paul's condition worsens.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
We had the maid thing just three four hundred yards away,
but the call came from the ward saying Paul Crampton
collapsed again.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I quickly realized. I walked into the room that it
was all happening again, was now the third time saying it.
Paul having this attack, the doctor z at hospital quickly
decided that it was now time to transfer Paul to
Queen's Medical Center in Nottingham.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Still, despite the deaths and incidents on ward four, nobody
suspects anyone is deliberately harming patients.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
The hospital services were purely untrust and we believe everybody
is good unless proved otherwise. And our training is such
that we always consider any medical condition to be medically explained.
We do not consider criminals to be around us and
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working with us. And that's the last thing we think.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You don't suspect nurses, and nobody suspect nurses. Nurses don't
suspect each other. They are nice people who give care parents.
They didn't want us to get near any of the nurses.
They felt the nurses had done everything right. Couldn't possibly
be the nurse that was in there at she can't
identified as a godmother. They felt so well off her.
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But whether that was through charm or the fact that
she got herselves in this position because of what was
happening and how she was doing it, each and every
occasion she was a key to every one of these problems.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Beverly's colleagues don't want to believe one of their own
could kill.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Either one of The course is for unexplained Sugar was
what we call intentional administration of consuling. But no one
ever suspected that that was the case. Checked with the GP,
the nursing staff, the parents, none of them had any suspicion.
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So I ruled that possibility out at the time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A decision which leaves her free to manufacture scenarios that
ensure she is the center of attention. Paul Crampton is
leaving Grandthon. He's going to a major city hospital in
nearby Nottingham. She is determined he will have familiar company
the nurse who has already saved his life.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Alat was about to end the chef for the day,
but volunteered to go with Paul. The ambus driver actually
turned to out and said, I'm not you again. So
clearly this is not the first time she had been
in an ambulance transferring sick children.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
To an the hospital since the day that Beverly Alots
began working. On ward four, Liam Taylor and Timothy Hardwick
had died and Paul Crampton has twice been moments from death.
On all three occasions, Allott has been the attending nurse
and she's now in the ambulance with baby Paul. The
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fight is on to save the life of Paul Crampton.
Doctors in Nottingham applied glucoats and carry out exhaustive checks.
They find nothing wrong with Paul. Until his parents he
can go home, they reluctantly agree that in fact, they
had nothing to worry about. As long as he is
nowhere near ward four, he's safe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Aby was exceptionally lucky, he really was, and that obnestly
gave him enormous doubts eventually, but she then did quickly
highlight the problem, and obviously I think that was part
of her issue. She wanted to be recognized. She was
obviously trying to get that kudos for her.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Although she knew that behavior was wrong, it didn't seem unreasonable.
There was purpose to it, There was reason to it,
and there were goals that she wanted to reach, me
perhaps the acclaim of saving children from.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The jaws of death. Oblivious to her wrongdoing, Alice is
routed by the hospital back onto the ward she's now
caring for Becky Phillips again. Her is a relatively minor
respiratory illness. She's one of identical twins staff at the
hospital now on edge every time a child has admitted
ten to her carefully, but it is Beverly Alice who
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shows particular devotion to duty.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Katie and Becky the twins were under my care and
they were born quite early, almost ten weeks pretty term,
and I looked after them in the special care baby unit,
and since being discharged from the niantal unit, they used
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to come quite after with various illnesses, which is not unusual,
and I suggested that they can go back home.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
That Beverly is about to strike.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Or little Becky Phillips. She was given insulin just before
she went home.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Alice has chosen her moment to perfection in order to kill.
As Becky is being ready for home, Alet delivers a
lethal dose of insulin to her muscle. The reaction is
less quick than if it had been injected into a vein,
so Becky is allowed home and is put down to
steep alongside her parents in bed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
She become listless, lethargic and subsequently died of an insulin overdose.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Beverly Altt chose a number of different methods to injure
or induce crisis in children that she was looking after.
If we assume a calculating position, it may be that
she chose different methods so they were less detectable.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But the horror inflicted on the Fillm family is not over.
What if the cause of Becky's death is genetic? What
about her twin sister, Katie.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I actually insisted that Katie should be brought for observation
in the hospital. I wish I had never said that.
Because of my insistence, they brought Katie in and Katie
was in the hospital for observation only when I was
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doing my round. I was called immediately to the general
ward where Katie was to say that Katie had collapsed. Now,
I then came rushing and I had great difficulty resuscitating Katie.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He had great difficulty because she had been injected with
a combination of insulin and potassium attacked three times. She survives,
but will be forever paralyzed, brain damaged, and in need
of twenty four hour cab.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You are the one there when she had these attacks.
What did you do to this child?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No reply.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
I felt responsible for Katie's disasters collapse, because if I
did not insist, Katy would not have come to hospital.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
She was only admitted toward four for observations. There was
nothing wrong with her, but she nearly died because of
these three attacks. And in each one of those three attacks,
you had been alone with her nol. You were seen
holding Katie in your arms. She was crying vigorously, and
then she went floppy, stopped breathing and went navy blue
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and color. What had you done to Katie to cause this?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
No reply? What is so sad is that the parents
made Beverly the godmother for Katie.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Since the day Beverly Alett joined the hospital, there had
been a remarkable plethora of patients falling seriously ill or dying.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
At that hospital onward four over a two month period.
During eight weeks, there'd been twenty six instants involving various children.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Even though we were very uncomfortable, greatly concerned what's going on,
we did not and could not think of interference from
a human being.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The hospital got so concerned about it that they had
fumigated waiting rooms and corridors. There was additional equipment put
on wards to deal with inst might arise.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Yess do occur without ever knowing why, and they're not criminal,
They just remain unknown.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
With hospital authorities not suspecting any member of staff. The
Peck family bring their daughter Clare to ward for again
with a minor chest illness. Beverly. Alice is not due
on the ward but insists on helping.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
She manipulated the scenario. She would tell people to leave
with Claire Peck. She needed intubating, she was asper and
they had to get tubes. She sent the other nurse,
who was a senior nurse, away from the ward to
get the indication tubes so that she was alone with Claire.
And what did she do She injected her with potassium.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So far, three of the children that Alice has attacked
have died, but many more have survived. Which group those
who die of those who live will Claire Peck find
herself in? Staff at Grantham Hospital are still mystified why
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children are dying or becoming suddenly very ill. Senior staff
at Nottingham realized that the children transferred into their cat survive,
whilst those remaining on Ward four often die. They call
in the police, who quickly decide that the key to
solving these attacks is the case of baby Paul.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Paul Crampton was highlighted because he had only been in
the hospital for a short period of time, and doing
that time, he had been subject of three incidents, and
those incidents had been identified as an increase of insulin,
an insulin that was not produced by the body, but
had probably been injected.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
The place said reasonably that Paul's attacks for the result
of the maladministration of drugs, and I remember words nearly perfectly,
because I think I said something that would explain a lot.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And they found something like five hundred minimals in this
child's body. That level is a whole syringe, if you like,
foot being injected. So it was obviously that something had happened.
So obviously that was a murder inquiry or potential murder.
The little boy survived.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The detectives are soon in no doubt that they have
a killer. On ward four, they begin to eliminate suspects,
including the Cramptons.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
At that time, everybody's a suspect if you wish, and
so we asked to investigate everybody, and Crampton very intelligent
man with the leader of the family group. Really, but
we had a time to down every single minute of
every single day while he was in that hospital.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Police discover that for one episode suffered by Paul, his
father had not been in the ward. He'd been sent
to the hospital canteen, sent by Beverly Allet. They painstakingly
study staffing wrots.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Within three or four days, I had taken a list
of the nurses at this hospital and the number of
incidents and spoken to a local mathematician and said, give
me the possibility of any one of these people being
present during these twenty six instance. It came up bear
Vallet twelve million to one. That was to me concrete evidence.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But they can't arrest her. Statistics alone are not evidence
of a crime. They just help narrow down the suspects.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
From that early stage, it was obvious that she was responsible,
or we felt she was responsible. You've got to think
of safety, so we couldn't afford for that woman to
be on that ward anymore or working anymore. So immediately
within several days of the investigation starting, she had to be.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Suspended, despite her clear presence at the scene of all
of the incidents, which had taken place. Staff at Grantham
refused to believe that Beverly allis is to blame. They
react against the investigators.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
They couldn't believe that a nurse would do such a thing,
and so when we went into that investigation, we were
in some way the enemy. Every nurse felt touched by it,
Every nurse felt they were to blame, and so it
was very difficult. They were not open with us until
we had got well into the inquiry. Neil inter viewed
thora think about eight hours, and she never admitted anything.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You do, yes on that ward, So I'm going to
carry in slim the pocket any unstringe.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The initial thoughts were, well, this young nurse, she's got
no convictions. We'd be able to interview her. She'd probably
want to admit it to take the heat away. Really,
we never dreamt that she wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Well, if you wanted to tell me what happened to do, so, is.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
That what I'm going to do?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I said, I'm not going to carry in sling around
with me.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
You told me.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I have enough in my pockets as it is.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Maybe they have not me.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It was easy to detect, but this was a very
difficult case to prove because at that time there was
insufficient evidence to charge. So she was released on bail
and she went to live with a friend while she
was on bail.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It seems incredible that a suspect in the multiple murder
of children in her care should have been released.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's a very difficult decision for a judge to take.
Is someone going to be remanded in custody for a
case that may take a couple of years to prepare,
or should they be on bail? And you might look
at what their background and history is. And at that stage,
of course, she was a person we might call a
good character. She was a nurse, The parents liked her,
no doubt. There were a lot of people that could
speak highly of her.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But whilst I was on bail, Beverly Alec can't resist
what might be her last chance to kill. Inside the
medicine cupboard of a friend's house where she's staying, insolent
tablets under the same roof a dog and a teenager
and an elderly lady.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
The grandmother was diabetic and taking tablets, and suddenly Jack
the terrier is on the lawn, frothing at the mouth
and rolling about, and Ale it's giving him a tablet.
A few days later, the young man who's seventeen, she
offers him a drink for iybina and go into the
shopping centry, collapses his hypo glycemi. She's given tablets belonging
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to the grandmother and his blood. She was gone and
he collapses, and he recovers fairly soon.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Suspended from working in Grantham, but still not charged, Alice
is entitled to find a job, even to go back
to nursing, where she soon tends to the needs of
a woman called Dorothy Lowe.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
She'd got a name down at a nursing agency and
one of the jobs that she did was attend an
old people's home. At the old people's home, she was
actually seen by an apraxilliary nurse there with a hypodermic
needle in her hand, in the same room with Dorothy Lowe.
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And you know that a gol an opportunity to tell
the truth. Now, don't be a lapto night.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I'm telling the truth. That's the actually going to get
from me. I'm telling the truth, the God's honor truth.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Despite overwhelming statistical evidence that she's a killer, Beverly Allite
is still maintaining her innocence freedom bail. She's even working
in a nursing home where she's tending to Dorothy Lowe.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Who's several minutes later, I was seen and declared dead.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Detectives need urgently to build a case. They noticed the
prevalence of heart attacks in the reported incidents. Two children,
yig Chan and Michael Davidson had been admitted Toward four
with minor injuries, yet later they had been rushed to
the specialist care unit at Nottingham with heart conditions.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Children do not have heart attacked. They're not had whiskey
women and lived badly. These are young babies, good Christine hearts,
and suddenly they have a heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yik Chan Michael Davison, for example. They were in there
because of accidents. There's no pre existing condition. There's no
reason for them to be fitting or collapsing in any way.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
When the mystery of Ward four began, police had not
begun to use DNA techniques for detection. Fingerprint evidence would
be useless against alert a nurse whose prints were all
over the ward. There were no witnesses to any of
the attacks on the children. The detective's return for much
needed evidence.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
We had discovered that the keys to the drug cabinet
had gone missing. The last person to happen was Bevalet.
We never found those keys. The allocation book had gone
missing from the nurses station. The allocation book was the
book the allocaed their patient to the nurse. The allocation
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book was found in bev alet wardrobe, little boy Bradley Gibson,
who his heart stopped for thirty two minutes, but he
did survive and he wasn't injured apparently. But the senior
nurse on duty it was on nights, she got her
to go and sell their affle tickets in the other
ward so that she was left alone. And you saw
that pattern all the way through. She was sending people away,
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getting the opportunity to be in the ward.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
In each case, Beverly Allie was at the children's bedside.
So many coincidences would surely be impossible to explain away.
It was time to confront her.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I didn't go in there with an open mind. I'd
done awful lot of research with the murder team. I'd
got a fire for every child we'd seen there was problems.
We'd had four die, we'd had two disabled. So I
knew that it was her, and there wasn't any never
a doubt. It must have been here, There was nobody
else there.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
It can't be no fault time making.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
But what is it's a deliberate fault.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You're making a deliberate fault.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yea, there's something you're doing deliberately to them, And I
do what will you tell me?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I wouldn't want to do anything well.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
But she was very plausible. She talked her way through,
She didn't get upset, She went through each child. She
minimized her involvement, She put other people in the frame,
she isolated them from her, and she was very manipulative.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Can you remember any conversation that took part.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Whilst you were in there?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
And Kathy was just telling me what happened?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Really?
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Yeah? And what you say to you?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
She just said, always just gone hypo.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Again when I met her, and I met her on
several occasions, she gave me the impression of being a
very cold and calculated person.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You're smiling?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Is it funny?
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Is it lighthearted? Don't you take the interview series?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Police decide to take their chances in course, knowing that
Beverly Allott would deny every charge with no physical evidence,
their success is far from certain. The trial lasted two months,
Allot frequently absent due to alleged illnesses. She was found
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guilty on the four counts of murder everyone a different method.
Eleven year old Tim Hardwick was suffocated, Becky Phillips was
injected with insolent, and Claire Peck potassium. The cause of
death of her first victim, Liam Taylor, remains unclear.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Bell Ballet did not get convicted of every offense she
was charged with, so there must have been some doubt
in some of the jury's minds on certain cases.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Of the eleven counts of attempted murder, she was convicted
of three. Paul Crampton, Bradley Gibson, and Katie Phillips, all
injected with insulin.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
She was aamaging these children. She didn't know how far
she could go, and she was trying to different things
to make it work for her.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
In terms of who she killed, there were a number
of children, but in many ways it looks as though
she was just taking the opportunity to deal with whoever
she could get her hands on.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
She was found guilty of six counts of grievous bodily harm.
Katie Desmond was injected with air. With the nature of
Allan's attacks on the remaining five boys, Henry yuk Chen,
Christopher King, Michael Davidson, Christopher Peasgood and Patrick Elstone are
still uncertain.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You've got a nurse injecting babies with insulin, tassium, ligna,
caine air, suffocating children a dreadful way for them to
die and a dreadful experience for the parents. So in
terms of sadistic, manipulative crimes, it's about as bad as
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it gets.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The judge passed thirteen life sentences, the most ever given
to a female prisoner in Britain. She was eventually to
be sent to rempt and Secure Hospital, a psychiatric unit,
where she continued to hurt herself, stabbing herself with paper clips,
covering herself in boiling water. Ironically, embroidering children's fairy tale
figures became a hobby where she's recently been moved to
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a new place to stay.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
What's a good thing about it? We're freedom Minima.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
In two thousand and seven, fourteen years after her crimes,
she applied to the courts to consider her sentence. After
a period of silence and denial, she had finally admitted
to three of the murders and six of the assaults,
but it was too little, too late. It was again
decided she should serve a minimum of thirty years.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
There are elements of this case that do have the
characteristics of the psychopath, in that there is no apparent remorse.
She was very late to admit to any of the
crimes that she has actually convicted of. People who do
have personality disorder have sustained dysfunctional and disturbed beliefs about
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themselves and other people that cause them to behave in
ways that others would term as abnormal or disturbed or
mad or bad.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
While she was a calculating, evil woman, there is no
doubt about it. She knew exactly what she was doing.
She'd had medical training. It isn't as if she was
doing these things without any knowledge. She was looking for
the drugs, she was looking for the various methods that
she could. I do not think she was psychologically I
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think she just was malicious. She was wicked, she was calculating,
She knew exactly what she was doing, and she's in
the right.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Place Grantham Maternity Unit closed forever. Some of Alad's colleagues
will never be the same again.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I thought, angry and frustrated about anybody trying to kill
a tiny baby. Here is a nurse masked eddings no
nurs but otherwise as a called bredd killer.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
In the village where locals seldom discuss their infamous friend
and neighbor. The former schoolmate and now pub landlord thinks
that even if she is ever released, it would be
better if she stays away from Corby Glenn.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
For her own sake. Hope she stays in there, Yeah,
because then it will be the better thing for the
village and for all these people who lost their children.
Who are.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Would I describe Ale as an evil person? I sincerely
hope that's an adequate description, because you know, she's clearly
very abnormal. She's clearly someone who is not fit to
be in society. Harmed people, particularly innocent people, are defenseless,
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and yes she must be evil.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well, killing children about as bad as it gets there,
you are, You've got parents taking their poorly babies into
hospital to get better, and the person who's supposed to
be helping look after them kills them.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I think that she's just a cold and calculated person
that this gave her pleasure. Just if you like the
Ripper or one of the other serial killers that you've
come up, she was deliberately doing this for her own
personal satisfaction.
The following program contains graphic material. Viewer discretion is advised.
Beverly Allett was a trusted children's nurse. Nobody knew that
she stalked hospital wards with murder on her mind.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That somebody can be evil enough to destroy her young
children's lives as beyond bely.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
She manipulated staff schedules to be alone with babies. She
prayed on the most vulnerable In.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Terms of sadistic, manipulative crimes. It's about as bad as
it gets.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Villagers in a remote English community have stayed silent about
their infamous former neighbor and friend until today.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
She was just quiet, the young girl who got on
with all the other girls, who played normally.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
For the first time. Seventeen grooding hours of interrogation have
been tracked down, revealing her chilling determination to get away
with multiple child murder. I didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I don't know how well and true to anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But she did do it. Beverly Alid was the ward
assassin Ward four of a rural hospital in England. Children
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are dying mysteriously and yet more are believed to have
suffered suspicious attacks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
In the previous four years, there had only been one
or two deaths on that ward, we suddenly had incidents,
twenty six incidents in eight weeks where four people would die.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Police launch and inquiry and interview the staff. One nurse
beverlyal It is just twenty two, newly given a job,
always eager to please, always on hand in a crisis
and later under questioning, always vehement in her denials of
any wrongdoing.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Where you have got this kid that some armor has
been done to it, You are a prime suspect of
the moment. Everything points at you, And.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
What can I do today?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I didn't I've told you I didn't do it, and
I wouldn't dream of doing it to anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The seeds of Beverly Alett's wickedness were sown in an
unremarkable country village. No one could know of the evil
she will inflict, but it's clear she will go to
extreme lengths to get attention. A personality disorder which will
later develop all too tragically, is rearing its menacing head.
For now, she is the only one who suffers.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
She was the sort of little girl that always had
a cut. She would fall over. She wanted a plaster
little things. Wherever Bev was, something was happening in class.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
She's above average.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was in younger days very quiet at school, and
that they could see that she was quite right, and
they said she was actually quite a clever girl in
all subjects.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Clever enough to be accepted as a junior nurse. But
her training does not go well. She's often ill, missing
courses and classes. She fails her exams and is bitter
that she's turned down for a job at a large hospital.
But Grantham Hospital is desperately understaffed. They need nurses. She
gets a six month contract.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And once she was on that ward she then used
that's the opportunity to draw attention to herself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
On ward four a specialist children's unit, Beverly Alice is
determined to prove what a great nurse she is.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Beverly carried herself as a savior, an important person as
part of the plescue team.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But unknown to colleagues at home, her attention seeking behavior
is becoming more alarming.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
She'd done strange things to herself. She used to cathgorize herself,
she'd inflate abreast with water, she'd put hot water in
her mouth, she cut her legs.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
This pattern of behavior is often referred to as Munchausen's syndrome.
Beverly has a long history of mystery illnesses, changing doctors
when they can find nothing wrong, insisting that her healthy
appendix is removed. No one can know that this attention
seeking behavior can escalate to hurting others. The children in
her care are in great danger.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Beverly was really labeled with Munchausen's by proxy or what
we'd term us fabricated or induced illness, because of a
very distinct pattern of abusive behaviors, and also her intense
relationships with the parents of the children and her need
to be the center of the crisis when it occurred.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The more Beverly can hurt a child, the more praise
she will get when saving that child. Beverly als is
about to play Russian Roulette with the lives of children.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Lord Fall was a very dangerous place while Beverly was
working there. She had maintained a sustained pattern of abusive
behaviors that were dangerous to the people she was caring for.
If she were with them unsupervised, children would have been
at risk.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Children like baby Paul Crempton, his case will become pivotal.
He suffers an asthma attack. His parents take new chances,
they rush him for treatment.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
He was taking him more as a precaution. He was
a young child, five months old. Clearly you're not happy
about the child in a hospital. But we didn't think
he was seriously ill, and of course we were told
he was coming home the next day.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I did see him on Saturday morning, and I felt
he was really being correct with and I didn't feel
that there was any great danger, and that he could
even go home.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The following day, Paul's parents returned to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Just unbelievable. We walk in feeling quite happy, and then
all of a sudden, there's people washing everywhere. And the
child he thought was coming on the next day is
clearly seriously or in the arms of a nurse, cold
gray clammy, clearly in some.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Distress circulatda And that doesn't please to me. He was ready, ready, poorly.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Paul is hypoglycemic and about to go into a coma.
He could die at any moment, luckily for him. The
hospital's star nurses on duty, Beverly Alas.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
She's been identified by the other nurses as an angel,
as a savior. She was always in the right place,
at the right time and was saying the right things.
So these parents had to believe in her and trust her,
and they.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Did Everlyalite it was in the said that Paul was
Charles hyper She decided she thought he was hyper glycemic,
so she was the person who diagnosed the.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Problem with death or real threat. A senior magic applies
glucose to a syringe and tries to find a vein.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I had, in fact difficult getting green as access, but
I didn't manage to do that, and I did give
some glucorth.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
He quickly recovered, and I recall that within a very
short space at time he was sat on the bed
playing with his toes.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The little boy survived, and the only reason he survived
is because Alet identified the problem very quickly and notified
senior nursing staff.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
At no point to Paul's parents or anybody else suspect wrongdoing.
Why would they. He was ill and his condition deteriorated
before a nurse suggests the cure.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The creation of the high drama that's focused on someone
else but also yourself as rescuer totally diverts any attention
or sensation you may get from your own feelings of trauma, distress, confusion.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Paul's parents firmly believe that their boy's life has been
saved by the prompt actions of nurse Alet, if only
they had known that a month before, a baby boy
had inexplicably fallen ill. Seven month old Liam Taylor was
also admitted with a minor chest infection. He died. The
attending nurse Beverly Alet.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Liam had died of a matthew heart attack as till
the coroner considered it to be a natural cause of death,
which shocked me and I could not believe and accept
that otherwise healthy someone may call baby who in my opinion,
did not have any structural heart problems, could have died
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of heart attack.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
When Lisa confronted with the tragedy of Liam's death, Beverly
al had displays concern at seeing her patience so ill.
In tapes never before released, she can be heard to
subtly pass any possible blame to somebody else on duty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, Liam Taylor, what involvement did you have with
that one?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Liam?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I specialed him one night, I did a night due
to the.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Extra and what happened was that it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Was ill, very ill, very ill.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Baby he had very severe broncolitis pneumonia sort of thing.
It looked like a blotches on his skin, and so
I asked David Dyle's a charging neist. I looked at him,
and David came and says, can you get a doctor?
And while David was in iPhone, and the doctor shouted
cardiac arrest while I was at the nursery station, and
so I'd put a call out for that instead. David
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Boyles was a night charge nis.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
In fact, it was always Beverly who was on hand
while a child was particularly vulnerable. Eleven year old Timothy Hardwick,
a boy with a disability so severe it means he
can only make grunting sounds, is admitted to Ward four
following an epileptic fit. The staff wrote her does not
have Beverly Allott working on the ward that day, she
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should not.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Have been there. He came in and also for about
two o'clock, and he met Allett at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Not all of those tended to by nurs sallets will
meet their death. Will Timothy Hardwicke be one of the
lucky ones. Timothy Hardwick is the latest patient on Ward
four to be left in the hands of Beverly allot
his power less to defend himself as she approaches him.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She should have been somewhere else, but she went into
that six bedded run and she's suffocating, and there isn't
any doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
When asked for an explanation about what had happened, Nur
Salad remains cool under pressure.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Timothy was an eleven year old born who had cable paul'sy.
Do you rememberous boy? Timothy died? What did you do
to him?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Already? Paul Crampton has been moments from death and it's
his condition which is again worrying.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Senior staff I was called earth an emergency to say
that Paul Crampton had collapsed.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
The hospital were clearly confused. The staff did not know
how to respond, and that was really really worrying because
the consultants had no idea why Paul had suddenly become ill,
and they were searching for answers and they didn't have any.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Doctors inject Paul with glucose and as before, he recovers,
but Paul's parents need answers and his mother is growing suspicious.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
We've brought a child into a hospital with a slight infection,
and now we'd suddenly got a child that was desperately ill,
but seemed to recover, and then was desperately ill again.
I wanted to know why. Whereas cass solutions problem was
more intuitive. She was very clear that this was not
a problem because Paul had a medical problem, but because
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something had gone wrong in his care.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Everyone is anxious. Monday dawns Paul is still fine. Ward
four relaxes Beverly and it's weekend shift is over and
she goes home. She lives locally, growing up in nearby
Corby Glenn. For the first time, a villager has agreed
to talk about Beverly.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Tell the truth. Beverly was a quiet one year would
actually when things were happening, we were deciding what was
gonna do, she would be at the back watching what
was going on. I mean, she was just a quiet
young girl who got on with all the other girls
and played normally.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
As she grew older and menacing nature emerged.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
She was the leader. And if you didn't if you
didn't do what she wanted you to do, then you
wasn't part of their group. And you would literally be told, well,
we're not part of it. So Beverly never had any friends.
Nobody wanted to play. She was the actually aggressor.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But not such an aggressor that people did not trust
her with their children. It was in her home village
that Beverly Anne had first learned how precious children are
to parents and how grateful they can be to those
who care for them.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
She loved looking after children, babysitting, and I think this
is what brought into enjoying working with children, that well,
this might not be a bad life going into And
I think you were just trying to see what sort
of job she wanted to do, and I think an
opportunity came up.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That opportunity was to become a trainee nurse, and were
better to gain approval than on a children's ward. Back
on duty, she's again on the scene when inexplicably poor
and falls dangerously ill for a third time. Doctor and
Yakara calls an urgent case conference. Even as the team
are meeting, Paul's condition worsens.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
We had the maid thing just three four hundred yards away,
but the call came from the ward saying Paul Crampton
collapsed again.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I quickly realized. I walked into the room that it
was all happening again, was now the third time saying it.
Paul having this attack, the doctor z at hospital quickly
decided that it was now time to transfer Paul to
Queen's Medical Center in Nottingham.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Still, despite the deaths and incidents on ward four, nobody
suspects anyone is deliberately harming patients.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
The hospital services were purely untrust and we believe everybody
is good unless proved otherwise. And our training is such
that we always consider any medical condition to be medically explained.
We do not consider criminals to be around us and
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working with us. And that's the last thing we think.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You don't suspect nurses, and nobody suspect nurses. Nurses don't
suspect each other. They are nice people who give care parents.
They didn't want us to get near any of the nurses.
They felt the nurses had done everything right. Couldn't possibly
be the nurse that was in there at she can't
identified as a godmother. They felt so well off her.
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But whether that was through charm or the fact that
she got herselves in this position because of what was
happening and how she was doing it, each and every
occasion she was a key to every one of these problems.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Beverly's colleagues don't want to believe one of their own
could kill.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Either one of The course is for unexplained Sugar was
what we call intentional administration of consuling. But no one
ever suspected that that was the case. Checked with the GP,
the nursing staff, the parents, none of them had any suspicion.
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So I ruled that possibility out at the time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A decision which leaves her free to manufacture scenarios that
ensure she is the center of attention. Paul Crampton is
leaving Grandthon. He's going to a major city hospital in
nearby Nottingham. She is determined he will have familiar company
the nurse who has already saved his life.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Alat was about to end the chef for the day,
but volunteered to go with Paul. The ambus driver actually
turned to out and said, I'm not you again. So
clearly this is not the first time she had been
in an ambulance transferring sick children.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
To an the hospital since the day that Beverly Alots
began working. On ward four, Liam Taylor and Timothy Hardwick
had died and Paul Crampton has twice been moments from death.
On all three occasions, Allott has been the attending nurse
and she's now in the ambulance with baby Paul. The
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fight is on to save the life of Paul Crampton.
Doctors in Nottingham applied glucoats and carry out exhaustive checks.
They find nothing wrong with Paul. Until his parents he
can go home, they reluctantly agree that in fact, they
had nothing to worry about. As long as he is
nowhere near ward four, he's safe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Aby was exceptionally lucky, he really was, and that obnestly
gave him enormous doubts eventually, but she then did quickly
highlight the problem, and obviously I think that was part
of her issue. She wanted to be recognized. She was
obviously trying to get that kudos for her.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Although she knew that behavior was wrong, it didn't seem unreasonable.
There was purpose to it, There was reason to it,
and there were goals that she wanted to reach, me
perhaps the acclaim of saving children from.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
The jaws of death. Oblivious to her wrongdoing, Alice is
routed by the hospital back onto the ward she's now
caring for Becky Phillips again. Her is a relatively minor
respiratory illness. She's one of identical twins staff at the
hospital now on edge every time a child has admitted
ten to her carefully, but it is Beverly Alice who
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shows particular devotion to duty.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Katie and Becky the twins were under my care and
they were born quite early, almost ten weeks pretty term,
and I looked after them in the special care baby unit,
and since being discharged from the niantal unit, they used
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to come quite after with various illnesses, which is not unusual,
and I suggested that they can go back home.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
That Beverly is about to strike.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Or little Becky Phillips. She was given insulin just before
she went home.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Alice has chosen her moment to perfection in order to kill.
As Becky is being ready for home, Alet delivers a
lethal dose of insulin to her muscle. The reaction is
less quick than if it had been injected into a vein,
so Becky is allowed home and is put down to
steep alongside her parents in bed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
She become listless, lethargic and subsequently died of an insulin overdose.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Beverly Altt chose a number of different methods to injure
or induce crisis in children that she was looking after.
If we assume a calculating position, it may be that
she chose different methods so they were less detectable.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But the horror inflicted on the Fillm family is not over.
What if the cause of Becky's death is genetic? What
about her twin sister, Katie.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I actually insisted that Katie should be brought for observation
in the hospital. I wish I had never said that.
Because of my insistence, they brought Katie in and Katie
was in the hospital for observation only when I was
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doing my round. I was called immediately to the general
ward where Katie was to say that Katie had collapsed. Now,
I then came rushing and I had great difficulty resuscitating Katie.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He had great difficulty because she had been injected with
a combination of insulin and potassium attacked three times. She survives,
but will be forever paralyzed, brain damaged, and in need
of twenty four hour cab.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You are the one there when she had these attacks.
What did you do to this child?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No reply.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
I felt responsible for Katie's disasters collapse, because if I
did not insist, Katy would not have come to hospital.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
She was only admitted toward four for observations. There was
nothing wrong with her, but she nearly died because of
these three attacks. And in each one of those three attacks,
you had been alone with her nol. You were seen
holding Katie in your arms. She was crying vigorously, and
then she went floppy, stopped breathing and went navy blue
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and color. What had you done to Katie to cause this?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
No reply? What is so sad is that the parents
made Beverly the godmother for Katie.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Since the day Beverly Alett joined the hospital, there had
been a remarkable plethora of patients falling seriously ill or dying.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
At that hospital onward four over a two month period.
During eight weeks, there'd been twenty six instants involving various children.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Even though we were very uncomfortable, greatly concerned what's going on,
we did not and could not think of interference from
a human being.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The hospital got so concerned about it that they had
fumigated waiting rooms and corridors. There was additional equipment put
on wards to deal with inst might arise.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Yess do occur without ever knowing why, and they're not criminal,
They just remain unknown.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
With hospital authorities not suspecting any member of staff. The
Peck family bring their daughter Clare to ward for again
with a minor chest illness. Beverly. Alice is not due
on the ward but insists on helping.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
She manipulated the scenario. She would tell people to leave
with Claire Peck. She needed intubating, she was asper and
they had to get tubes. She sent the other nurse,
who was a senior nurse, away from the ward to
get the indication tubes so that she was alone with Claire.
And what did she do She injected her with potassium.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So far, three of the children that Alice has attacked
have died, but many more have survived. Which group those
who die of those who live will Claire Peck find
herself in? Staff at Grantham Hospital are still mystified why
(24:04):
children are dying or becoming suddenly very ill. Senior staff
at Nottingham realized that the children transferred into their cat survive,
whilst those remaining on Ward four often die. They call
in the police, who quickly decide that the key to
solving these attacks is the case of baby Paul.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Paul Crampton was highlighted because he had only been in
the hospital for a short period of time, and doing
that time, he had been subject of three incidents, and
those incidents had been identified as an increase of insulin,
an insulin that was not produced by the body, but
had probably been injected.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
The place said reasonably that Paul's attacks for the result
of the maladministration of drugs, and I remember words nearly perfectly,
because I think I said something that would explain a lot.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And they found something like five hundred minimals in this
child's body. That level is a whole syringe, if you like,
foot being injected. So it was obviously that something had happened.
So obviously that was a murder inquiry or potential murder.
The little boy survived.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The detectives are soon in no doubt that they have
a killer. On ward four, they begin to eliminate suspects,
including the Cramptons.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
At that time, everybody's a suspect if you wish, and
so we asked to investigate everybody, and Crampton very intelligent
man with the leader of the family group. Really, but
we had a time to down every single minute of
every single day while he was in that hospital.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Police discover that for one episode suffered by Paul, his
father had not been in the ward. He'd been sent
to the hospital canteen, sent by Beverly Allet. They painstakingly
study staffing wrots.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Within three or four days, I had taken a list
of the nurses at this hospital and the number of
incidents and spoken to a local mathematician and said, give
me the possibility of any one of these people being
present during these twenty six instance. It came up bear
Vallet twelve million to one. That was to me concrete evidence.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But they can't arrest her. Statistics alone are not evidence
of a crime. They just help narrow down the suspects.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
From that early stage, it was obvious that she was responsible,
or we felt she was responsible. You've got to think
of safety, so we couldn't afford for that woman to
be on that ward anymore or working anymore. So immediately
within several days of the investigation starting, she had to be.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Suspended, despite her clear presence at the scene of all
of the incidents, which had taken place. Staff at Grantham
refused to believe that Beverly allis is to blame. They
react against the investigators.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
They couldn't believe that a nurse would do such a thing,
and so when we went into that investigation, we were
in some way the enemy. Every nurse felt touched by it,
Every nurse felt they were to blame, and so it
was very difficult. They were not open with us until
we had got well into the inquiry. Neil inter viewed
thora think about eight hours, and she never admitted anything.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You do, yes on that ward, So I'm going to
carry in slim the pocket any unstringe.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The initial thoughts were, well, this young nurse, she's got
no convictions. We'd be able to interview her. She'd probably
want to admit it to take the heat away. Really,
we never dreamt that she wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Well, if you wanted to tell me what happened to do, so, is.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
That what I'm going to do?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I said, I'm not going to carry in sling around
with me.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
You told me.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I have enough in my pockets as it is.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Maybe they have not me.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It was easy to detect, but this was a very
difficult case to prove because at that time there was
insufficient evidence to charge. So she was released on bail
and she went to live with a friend while she
was on bail.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It seems incredible that a suspect in the multiple murder
of children in her care should have been released.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's a very difficult decision for a judge to take.
Is someone going to be remanded in custody for a
case that may take a couple of years to prepare,
or should they be on bail? And you might look
at what their background and history is. And at that stage,
of course, she was a person we might call a
good character. She was a nurse, The parents liked her,
no doubt. There were a lot of people that could
speak highly of her.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But whilst I was on bail, Beverly Alec can't resist
what might be her last chance to kill. Inside the
medicine cupboard of a friend's house where she's staying, insolent
tablets under the same roof a dog and a teenager
and an elderly lady.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
The grandmother was diabetic and taking tablets, and suddenly Jack
the terrier is on the lawn, frothing at the mouth
and rolling about, and Ale it's giving him a tablet.
A few days later, the young man who's seventeen, she
offers him a drink for iybina and go into the
shopping centry, collapses his hypo glycemi. She's given tablets belonging
(29:16):
to the grandmother and his blood. She was gone and
he collapses, and he recovers fairly soon.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Suspended from working in Grantham, but still not charged, Alice
is entitled to find a job, even to go back
to nursing, where she soon tends to the needs of
a woman called Dorothy Lowe.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
She'd got a name down at a nursing agency and
one of the jobs that she did was attend an
old people's home. At the old people's home, she was
actually seen by an apraxilliary nurse there with a hypodermic
needle in her hand, in the same room with Dorothy Lowe.
(29:55):
And you know that a gol an opportunity to tell
the truth. Now, don't be a lapto night.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I'm telling the truth. That's the actually going to get
from me. I'm telling the truth, the God's honor truth.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Despite overwhelming statistical evidence that she's a killer, Beverly Allite
is still maintaining her innocence freedom bail. She's even working
in a nursing home where she's tending to Dorothy Lowe.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Who's several minutes later, I was seen and declared dead.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Detectives need urgently to build a case. They noticed the
prevalence of heart attacks in the reported incidents. Two children,
yig Chan and Michael Davidson had been admitted Toward four
with minor injuries, yet later they had been rushed to
the specialist care unit at Nottingham with heart conditions.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Children do not have heart attacked. They're not had whiskey
women and lived badly. These are young babies, good Christine hearts,
and suddenly they have a heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yik Chan Michael Davison, for example. They were in there
because of accidents. There's no pre existing condition. There's no
reason for them to be fitting or collapsing in any way.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
When the mystery of Ward four began, police had not
begun to use DNA techniques for detection. Fingerprint evidence would
be useless against alert a nurse whose prints were all
over the ward. There were no witnesses to any of
the attacks on the children. The detective's return for much
needed evidence.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
We had discovered that the keys to the drug cabinet
had gone missing. The last person to happen was Bevalet.
We never found those keys. The allocation book had gone
missing from the nurses station. The allocation book was the
book the allocaed their patient to the nurse. The allocation
(31:54):
book was found in bev alet wardrobe, little boy Bradley Gibson,
who his heart stopped for thirty two minutes, but he
did survive and he wasn't injured apparently. But the senior
nurse on duty it was on nights, she got her
to go and sell their affle tickets in the other
ward so that she was left alone. And you saw
that pattern all the way through. She was sending people away,
(32:18):
getting the opportunity to be in the ward.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
In each case, Beverly Allie was at the children's bedside.
So many coincidences would surely be impossible to explain away.
It was time to confront her.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I didn't go in there with an open mind. I'd
done awful lot of research with the murder team. I'd
got a fire for every child we'd seen there was problems.
We'd had four die, we'd had two disabled. So I
knew that it was her, and there wasn't any never
a doubt. It must have been here, There was nobody
else there.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
It can't be no fault time making.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
But what is it's a deliberate fault.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You're making a deliberate fault.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yea, there's something you're doing deliberately to them, And I
do what will you tell me?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I wouldn't want to do anything well.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
But she was very plausible. She talked her way through,
She didn't get upset, She went through each child. She
minimized her involvement, She put other people in the frame,
she isolated them from her, and she was very manipulative.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Can you remember any conversation that took part.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Whilst you were in there?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
And Kathy was just telling me what happened?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Really?
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Yeah? And what you say to you?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
She just said, always just gone hypo.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Again when I met her, and I met her on
several occasions, she gave me the impression of being a
very cold and calculated person.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You're smiling?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Is it funny?
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Is it lighthearted? Don't you take the interview series?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Police decide to take their chances in course, knowing that
Beverly Allott would deny every charge with no physical evidence,
their success is far from certain. The trial lasted two months,
Allot frequently absent due to alleged illnesses. She was found
(34:18):
guilty on the four counts of murder everyone a different method.
Eleven year old Tim Hardwick was suffocated, Becky Phillips was
injected with insolent, and Claire Peck potassium. The cause of
death of her first victim, Liam Taylor, remains unclear.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Bell Ballet did not get convicted of every offense she
was charged with, so there must have been some doubt
in some of the jury's minds on certain cases.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Of the eleven counts of attempted murder, she was convicted
of three. Paul Crampton, Bradley Gibson, and Katie Phillips, all
injected with insulin.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
She was aamaging these children. She didn't know how far
she could go, and she was trying to different things
to make it work for her.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
In terms of who she killed, there were a number
of children, but in many ways it looks as though
she was just taking the opportunity to deal with whoever
she could get her hands on.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
She was found guilty of six counts of grievous bodily harm.
Katie Desmond was injected with air. With the nature of
Allan's attacks on the remaining five boys, Henry yuk Chen,
Christopher King, Michael Davidson, Christopher Peasgood and Patrick Elstone are
still uncertain.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You've got a nurse injecting babies with insulin, tassium, ligna,
caine air, suffocating children a dreadful way for them to
die and a dreadful experience for the parents. So in
terms of sadistic, manipulative crimes, it's about as bad as
(35:54):
it gets.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The judge passed thirteen life sentences, the most ever given
to a female prisoner in Britain. She was eventually to
be sent to rempt and Secure Hospital, a psychiatric unit,
where she continued to hurt herself, stabbing herself with paper clips,
covering herself in boiling water. Ironically, embroidering children's fairy tale
figures became a hobby where she's recently been moved to
(36:22):
a new place to stay.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
What's a good thing about it? We're freedom Minima.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
In two thousand and seven, fourteen years after her crimes,
she applied to the courts to consider her sentence. After
a period of silence and denial, she had finally admitted
to three of the murders and six of the assaults,
but it was too little, too late. It was again
decided she should serve a minimum of thirty years.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
There are elements of this case that do have the
characteristics of the psychopath, in that there is no apparent remorse.
She was very late to admit to any of the
crimes that she has actually convicted of. People who do
have personality disorder have sustained dysfunctional and disturbed beliefs about
(37:08):
themselves and other people that cause them to behave in
ways that others would term as abnormal or disturbed or
mad or bad.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
While she was a calculating, evil woman, there is no
doubt about it. She knew exactly what she was doing.
She'd had medical training. It isn't as if she was
doing these things without any knowledge. She was looking for
the drugs, she was looking for the various methods that
she could. I do not think she was psychologically I
(37:38):
think she just was malicious. She was wicked, she was calculating,
She knew exactly what she was doing, and she's in
the right.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Place Grantham Maternity Unit closed forever. Some of Alad's colleagues
will never be the same again.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I thought, angry and frustrated about anybody trying to kill
a tiny baby. Here is a nurse masked eddings no
nurs but otherwise as a called bredd killer.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
In the village where locals seldom discuss their infamous friend
and neighbor. The former schoolmate and now pub landlord thinks
that even if she is ever released, it would be
better if she stays away from Corby Glenn.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
For her own sake. Hope she stays in there, Yeah,
because then it will be the better thing for the
village and for all these people who lost their children.
Who are.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Would I describe Ale as an evil person? I sincerely
hope that's an adequate description, because you know, she's clearly
very abnormal. She's clearly someone who is not fit to
be in society. Harmed people, particularly innocent people, are defenseless,
(39:01):
and yes she must be evil.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well, killing children about as bad as it gets there,
you are, You've got parents taking their poorly babies into
hospital to get better, and the person who's supposed to
be helping look after them kills them.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I think that she's just a cold and calculated person
that this gave her pleasure. Just if you like the
Ripper or one of the other serial killers that you've
come up, she was deliberately doing this for her own
personal satisfaction.
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