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In 1991, the children's ward at 
Grantham Hospital found itself 

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in a state of panic. 
So many children were falling 

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very suddenly and seriously ill.
Their hearts were literally 

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stopping out of nowhere. 
They'd already lost two children

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to these unexplained attacks and
almost lost a further to. 

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But this was only the start of 
the devastation that would take 

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place while the Angel of Death 
was on the job. 

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Hello and welcome to Outlaw 
Podcast. 

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I'm Eleanor Neil and today we're
serving you up a true crime case

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from the vault. 
This episode was originally 

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posted to my YouTube channel 
years ago before we existed as 

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Outlaw Podcast, but I think it's
time we add it to the Outlaw 

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catalog. 
So now I will hand back to me 

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from the past to take it away 
with today's vault case. 

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Oh, and by the way, today's case
has multiple parts. 

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This is actually Part 2. 
So if you haven't seen Part 1 

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yet, which was our most recent 
upload, well go watch that one 

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first and then come back here 
and watch Part 2. 

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So today's video is going to be 
Part 2 of the Beverly Alec case,

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the Angel of death, the 
nightmare nurse. 

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She goes by so many different 
names. 

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Before we get into the rest of 
the case, I do just want to give

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content warnings, although they 
are the same as Part 1. 

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So if you couldn't watch Part 1,
you probably won't be able to 

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watch Part 2. 
So in this video, we're going to

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be discussing the murders of 
very young children, even 

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babies. 
We're also going to be 

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discussing a lot of different 
mental illnesses, including 

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personality disorders, self 
harm, anorexia, Munchausen 

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syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by
proxy. 

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There's also going to be brief 
mentions of animal abuse, rape, 

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and domestic violence. 
So if any of that is something 

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that you don't want to hear 
about right now, I completely 

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understand. 
Just click out the video and 

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hopefully I'll catch you again 
with a different video another 

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time. 
But yeah, all of that being 

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said, I already gave a little 
bit of a summary at the start of

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the video, so let's just get 
straight into part. 

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So the next child to fall 
suddenly I'll at Grantham 

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Hospital. 
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after Paul Crampton was 
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Five year old Bradley Gibson was
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He'd been referred to Grantham 
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mother had taken him to the GP, 
just the normal doctor because 

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he had a really bad cough. 
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over, he diagnosed him with 
quite a bad chest infection. 

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And so they sent him to the 
hospital so that he could be put

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on like antibiotics. 
He was put on an IV, and when he

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arrived at the hospital, all 
these nurses remarked at how 

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positive and bright little 
Bradley was. 

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Like, even though he had this 
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was in pain, but he was just so 
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So, yeah, Bradley was in good 
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He was fitted with his IV. 
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room and he was getting on quite
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However, in the middle of his 
first night at the hospital, he 

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complained to the nurses that 
his IV was hurting him. 

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And so nurse Beverly Allit went 
to his room to go and sort it 

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out, but while she was there, 
Bradley collapsed. 

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Apparently he just slumped 
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completely unconscious, stopped 
breathing and his heart just 

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stopped. 
So the team rushed in to come 

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and resuscitate Bradley and they
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possibly could, but nothing was 
really working. 

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And so they made the decision to
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Bear in mind this is a 5 year 
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dangerous, but when nothing else
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beats losing him. 
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him like 7 or 8 times which I 
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on a 5 year old, but like I 
said, anything beats losing him.

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They were up in all his 
different medications and stuff.

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And finally they resuscitated 
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He was breathing again. 
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sudden, literally came out of 
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decided to do some tests on 
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They took a blood sample and 
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high insulin levels that the 
Nottingham hospital had found in

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another child. 
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this is because Bradley's blood 
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Hospital and Paul Crampton's 
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been done by Nottingham 
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They didn't connect the no one 
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pattern here with these children
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these respiratory attacks and 
having super high insulin 

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levels. 
Like no one noticed that because

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it was two different teams that 
figured that out and they didn't

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communicate it. 
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old Bradley Gibson went into 
cardiac arrest again a second 

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time and history repeated 
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Beverly Allit sounded the alarm,
rushed to his bedside and helped

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to resuscitate him again, and 
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And now that Bradley had two 
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felt like they couldn't deal 
with this case, just like they 

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couldn't deal with a lot of the 
cases that they were having 

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lately. 
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to Nottingham Hospital, where he
recovered pretty much instantly 

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and never had another cardiac 
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Fancy that. 
Although sadly, he was left with

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long lasting issues from these 
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He couldn't use his legs for a 
long, long time, and he lost 

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control of his bladder for a 
number of years as well. 

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Fortunately, after years of 
physiotherapy, Bradley managed 

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managed to gain all of this 
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He could use his legs again, he 
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that didn't stop the kids at 
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this. 
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because of all of these physical
issues that he was left with and

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he even had nightmares for a 
long time. 

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But he was one of the luckier 
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children's ward at Grantham 
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The next suspicious case that 
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And let me just put this into 
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Beverly Allen has only been 
working there for one month at 

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this point and they've had this 
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Just every single week there 
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random respiratory attacks, 
unexplained cardiac arrests, and

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none of this had ever really 
happened before until Beverly 

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Allit joined. 
But anyway, on March 22nd, 2 

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year old Yit Kung Chan was 
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he fell and fractured his skull.
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nurse Beverly Allit and 
literally within a few hours of 

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him arriving at the hospital, he
stopped breathing and went blue 

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completely out of nowhere, just 
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children. 
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bedside, gave him oxygen and he 
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He actually came around again, 
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he already had, a fractured 
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That's why he was in hospital in
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Grantham Hospital thought well, 
fractured skull plus cardiac 

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arrest out of nowhere, like they
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that's severe. 
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Chan to Nottingham Hospital and 
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never had another the 
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arrest, just like Paul Crampton,
just like Bradley Gibson, just 

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like a lot of the children that 
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from Grantham. 
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attributed this random cardiac 
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I don't know what the 
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I'm not a doctor. 
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that must be the reason and no 
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again. 
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blaming these cardiac arrest, 
these random respiratory attacks

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on something different every 
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Like, oh, maybe it's the chest 
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skull fracture or maybe it's 
this. 

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Maybe it's that. 
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children would have a severe 
cardiac arrest or respiratory 

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attack, they would just blame it
on something quite irrelevant, 

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like every single time. 
And it's like, why is no one 

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noticing this pattern? 
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the next two children to fall 
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They were two twins and they 
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So they were tiny, tiny, tiny. 
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admitted to the hospital, they 
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The first one of the twins to be
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Becky. 
She had caught quite a severe 

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stomach bug. 
She was vomiting, she had 

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diarrhea. 
And in a nine week old premature

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baby, this can be so, so 
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And so they admitted her to the 
hospital so that she could have 

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very close care and a close eye 
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And she was responding really 
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She was getting her fluids up. 
She'd stopped vomiting, vomiting

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and it looked like she was on 
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However, just a couple of days 
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the alarm that Becky had stopped
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She was resuscitated 
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And just like all those other 
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resuscitated, she recovered so 
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It's like these kids bounced 
back within a few hours, which 

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is not normal when you've got a 
severe cardiac arrest, 

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especially in a nine week old 
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Yeah, it was almost unbelievable
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And so within a few days of this
cardiac arrest, Becky was 

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discharged from the hospital. 
But on the first night in her 

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own home, Becky took a turn for 
the worst and she started having

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convulsions and she was in so 
much pain, bless her, she was 

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sobbing a little, eyes out. 
And her parents just did not 

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know what to do. 
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doctor to come to the house. 
And this doctor had no relation 

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to Grantham Hospital. 
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They came and they assessed 
Becky and they told her parents 

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that it seemed she had colic, 
which is a term for when a new 

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newborn baby just cries and 
cries and cries for no reason. 

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Apparently this is quite a 
common thing with newborn babies

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where they're perfectly healthy,
they have nothing wrong with 

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them, but they just seem to cry 
and they never stop. 

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And usually it resolves itself 
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So the doctor advised her 
parents to just try and soothe 

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her, try and comfort her the 
best that they can and maybe 

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take her for a proper 
examination the following 

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morning because this was quite 
late at night when this doctor 

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came out. 
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parents woke up and when to go 
and check on their baby, she was

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called to the touch. 
Becky Phillips had passed away 

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in her sleep. 
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enough to lose a child, to lose 
your baby, her parents were now 

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filled with fear that maybe 
their other daughter, Becky's 

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twin sister, Katie, what if 
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What if Becky had kind of passed
this stomach bug onto her 

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sister? 
And what if they were going to 

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lose their other baby as well 
now? 

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So the parents rushed Katie to 
the hospital to be checked over 

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and cared for by professionals. 
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they were greeted by Nurse 
Beverly Allit. 

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And they were just so comforted 
to see a friendly face, someone 

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that they knew, someone that 
they trusted on the children's 

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ward. 
So Nurse Beverly Allit took 

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Katie and whisked her away to 
her own hospital bed where she 

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hooked her up to all these 
monitors that could check on 

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her. 
But within just a few hours of 

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arriving at the hospital, Katie 
stopped breathing. 

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In the space of 24 hours this 
family had very suddenly and 

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tragically lost one of their 
babies and now their other 

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daughter seems to be falling ill
in the exact same way. 

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I can't imagine how terrifying 
this must have been. 

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Katie was resuscitated 
successfully but then she 

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stopped breathing again and she 
was resuscitated again and at 

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this point Grantham were like 
Nope this case is too severe. 

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Transferred her to Nottingham 
hospital as always for urgent 

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care. 
As soon as Katie arrived at this

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new hospital, they gave her a 
full examination and that was 

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when doctors found out that five
of her ribs were broken. 

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How they had no idea how this 
could have happened. 

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Her parents had no idea either 
because it's not like she'd like

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fallen or been dropped or 
anything like that. 

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They couldn't imagine how five 
of her ribs could have just 

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broken. 
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Hospital attributed her lungs 
collapsing to these broken ribs.

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It seemed to make these 
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This is actually the only case 
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attacks kind of made sense. 
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investigations were done. 
No one is realizing a pattern or

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a correlation because they seem 
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arrests on something, anything, 
everything, everything other 

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than bad care. 
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recovered and survived her 
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Although she was left with long 
lasting issues due to the oxygen

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deprivation to her brain. 
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cerebral palsy and that is a 
lifelong disability. 

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I think a couple of the children
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cerebral palsy. 
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affect them for the rest of 
their lives. 

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But she was alive and that's all
that matters. 

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Her parents were just over the 
moon that she could be saved and

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they were so grateful for all of
the hospital staff's help, 

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especially Nurse Beverly Allet 
that had cared for both of their

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babies. 
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In fact, the Phillips family was
so grateful to Nurse Beverly 

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Allet that they actually asked 
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she accepted she was Katie 
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After this case of Katie and 
Becky Phillips, there were four 

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more cases on the Grantham 
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Hearts just randomly stopping 
these random respiratory 

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attacks. 
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really have as much information 
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sure what order they happened 
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I'll tell you what I know. 
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to me and you true crime fans, 
it seems insanely obvious that 

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something dodgy is going on 
here. 

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I keep saying it that the 
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these patterns or correlations, 
but bear in mind this case 

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actually took place before the 
Harold Shipman case. 

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If you're unaware of the Harold 
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video on it. 
But he was a doctor that was 

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killing a lot of his patients 
and that hadn't been exposed 

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yet. 
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that doctors could be doing this
to their patients. 

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It was completely unheard of. 
Would never had a case like that

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in the UK before until Harold 
Shipman and then until this one.

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And besides Nurse Beverly allit 
seemed so dedicated to her job 

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that no one ever suspected that 
she was a bad person. 

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You know, she was volunteering 
to work outside of hours, unpaid

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just to care for these children.
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just seemed like a passion of 
hers that she just really wanted

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to look after children. 
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there were four more cases 
around this time and I'll run 

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through them quickly, one of 
which was Michael Davidson. 

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I couldn't find out how old 
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time and caring for him. 
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that were looking after Michael 
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nurse Beverly Allit to go and 
get a syringe, go and prepare a 

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syringe for Michael. 
So she brought this syringe back

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to the Doctor Who administered 
it to Michael. 

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randomly and luckily they could 
resuscitate him. 

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But they couldn't figure out why
this had happened. 

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this was weird, but this wasn't 
natural, that something odd had 

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it. 
They did want to investigate. 

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But the only thing being, like I
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on this ward, they simply didn't
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this could have happened. 
They were just so busy with all 

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of these patients that no one 
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tests on this boy and figure out
why this happened. 

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They had to be like running 
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these children. 
So actually, they just concluded

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that Michael must have been 
allergic to the medication or 

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something like that. 
He had an adverse reaction and 

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that must have been the 
explanation, but really, they 

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never actually found out an 
explanation. 

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Another child named Christopher 
Peasgood was admitted to the 

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children's ward with a chest 
infection, just like a lot of 

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children before him. 
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arriving, he stopped breathing. 
He stopped breathing twice, 

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actually. 
He was resuscitated and then 

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stopped again, and then he was 
resuscitated again. 

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That's another pattern here as 
well. 

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These cardiac arrests are not 
just one singular thing. 

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A lot of these children are 
having repeated heated attacks. 

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But yeah, he was resuscitated 
for a second time, and he seemed

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to bounce back fine. 
And after that, he never had 

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another attack. 
But there was something else 

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weird about this case. 
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there were signs that he'd been 
smothered yet that wasn't looked

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into. 
What? 

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What do you actually mean? 
Signs that a child has been 

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smothered. 
But it wasn't looked into, I 

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believe because they were so 
understaffed and they didn't 

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have time to look into that. 
But how serious is that? 

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And they didn't look into it. 
But yeah, like I said, he never 

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had another attack after those 
two. 

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And he was able to leave the 
hospital relatively recovered. 

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The next child was named 
Christopher King. 

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And very similarly to Becky 
Phillips, he had caught this 

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stomach bug. 
He was vomiting, diarrhea. 

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It was really, really severe. 
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hospital to just try and get his
fluids up. 

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He was left under the care of 
Nurse Beverly Alice for a couple

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of hours just while his parents 
were out speaking to the other 

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doctors. 
And when they returned to his 

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bedside, Christopher was very 
unwell. 

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Just minutes later, he actually 
stopped breathing completely and

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turned blue. 
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the case. 
She rushed to his bedside, 

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managed to resuscitate him, 
managed to get him pretty much 

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fully recovered. 
And after that, Christopher King

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was completely fine. 
He never suffered anything like 

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that ever again. 
Doctors just kind of put it down

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to severe dehydration due to his
stomach bug, and they moved on. 

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And the last of these four cases
was a young boy named Patrick 

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Elstone, who also stopped 
breathing on the children's ward

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of Grantham Hospital. 
And it was Beverly Allet that 

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actually noticed that he'd 
stopped breathing and turned 

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blue because he was hooked up to
a load of monitors. 

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But they didn't go off when he 
stopped breathing for some 

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reason. 
If it hadn't have been for 

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Beverly Allet noticing that this
boy had stopped breathing and 

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gone blue, he would have lost 
his life. 

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And so when she rushed to his 
bed bedside and helped to 

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resuscitate him, his parents 
were so grateful to her. 

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She had saved their boy's life. 
But the next child on the 

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Grantham Children's ward sadly 
wouldn't be so lucky. 15 month 

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old Claire Peck was admitted to 
the children's ward in late 

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April for severe asthma. 
In fact, she'd had this severe 

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asthma all her life and so she'd
been in and out of the 

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children's ward all her life. 
So the staff knew her quite 

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well, but this was the first 
time she'd been there while 

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Nurse Beverly Allit had been 
working. 

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On April 22nd, doctors pulled 
Claire's parents into an office 

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just to discuss her treatment 
plan, and they left Claire in 

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the care of Nurse Beverly Allit.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Claire

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went into cardiac arrest. 
She turned blue. 

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And Beverly Allit actually 
managed to resuscitate her all 

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by herself. 
She helped this baby recover. 

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And her parents were, of course,
so relieved but also so worried 

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that, like, where had that come 
from? 

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Now they were were even more 
scared for their daughter and so

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once again the doctors pulled 
her parents aside into this 

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office to discuss how and why 
this might have happened. 

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But within 90 seconds of her 
parents leaving Claire's 

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bedside, she had collapsed again
and stopped breathing again. 

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Beverly tried to resuscitate 
Claire again but she couldn't do

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it and so she raised the alarm 
for further help. 

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They rushed to the bedside and 
they were doing everything that 

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they could, but Claire was just 
far too weak and they just 

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couldn't bring her around. 
And it was then when Claire 

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Peck's heart stopped and she was
pronounced dead. 

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She passed away with her parents
at her bedside. 

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And the nurses remember this 
being one of the saddest days 

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that they had ever worked. 
Literally every nurse, every 

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doctor on that ward was sobbing 
because they all knew Claire 

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quite well at this point. 
Like I said, she was always in 

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the hospital for her asthma and 
she had just the most gorgeous 

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little smiling bright face and 
all the staff loved her. 

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It was like they were all losing
a family member. 

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Claire's body was sent off for 
an autopsy so that they could 

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figure out how this happened, 
but the coroner just ruled her 

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death as natural causes and a 
lot of people were satisfied 

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with that, but not everyone. 
There was a pediatric consultant

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at Grantham and Kesteven 
Hospital named Doctor Porter and

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he was alarmed at the amount of 
just random cardiac arrest and 

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respiratory attacks that had 
been happening over the last 

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like 2 months in that hospital. 
He was actually so concerned 

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that he opened a formal inquiry 
thinking that something was 

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going on here. 
Now when I say he thought 

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something was going on, he never
for one second thought that 

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someone was intentionally. 
Hurting these children. 

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He just thought that some like 
protocols needed changing. 

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Something was going wrong with 
how the nurses were trying to 

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deal with these children, if 
that makes sense. 

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Like he didn't think it was 
quite as sinister as what it 

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was, but he thought that some 
people might not be doing their 

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jobs properly. 
And it was, it was getting quite

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devastating at this point. 
So something needed to be done. 

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So he compiled a list of the 13 
children that we've spoken about

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in this case because they were 
all very, very similar, just 

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random cardiac arrests, 
respiratory attacks out of 

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nowhere. 
They'd stop breathing, their 

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heart would stop, they'd turn 
blue. 

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It was all the same. 
And he went and contacted the 

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authorities, the police, and he 
basically said, look, I've got 

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no proof of anything, but I just
know that something is not right

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here. 
Something is going on, and I 

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need you to look into this. 
And police agreed that something

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didn't seem quite right with 
those figures and all of the 

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cases that this doctor had told 
them. 

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And so on. 
May 3rd, 1991, the doctors went 

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down to Grantham and Kesteven 
Hospital to speak with Doctor 

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Porter and one of his 
colleagues. 

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And in this meeting there was 
another man invited. 

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So there were the doctors from 
Grantham Hospital, but also a 

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professor named Doctor Hull who 
was also a medical professional,

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but he wasn't linked to Grantham
Hospital in any way. 

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They needed like a completely 
separate perspective, you know. 

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And after this meeting, Doctor 
Hull took all of this 

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information, all of this 
evidence that the hospital had 

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given him, and he wrote up a 
report and he mainly focused 

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this report on a few of the more
concerning cases or the cases 

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that he felt were the most 
concerning. 

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The main one being the case of 
Paul Crampton, one of the 

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surviving children. 
He he was the one where they 

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found those insanely high 
insulin levels in his blood and 

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they put it down to an insulin 
OMA, but they actually never had

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any evidence that there was even
an insulin OMA there. 

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And Professor Hull basically 
said if this was down to an 

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insulin OMA, it would be a 
recurring rearing issue. 

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This insulinoma would keep 
coming back. 

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But like I said, Paul Crampton 
never had any issues like this 

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ever again. 
So Professor Hull was basically 

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saying it can't be an 
insulinoma. 

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So how were his levels that 
high? 

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That's not natural. 
Something must have happened to 

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get his levels that high. 
That was only one of the things 

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that Professor Hull wrote about 
in this report. 

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But there were so many other 
concerning, suspicious things 

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that he'd spotted throughout 
these cases. 

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And when he'd finished this 
report, he took it back to 

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Grantham and cause Stephen and 
showed Doctor Porter. 

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And they just could not believe 
that all of this evidence had 

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been like right in front of 
their eyes the whole time. 

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So they took these reports 
straight to the police and they 

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were like, look, look at 
everything that we've found. 

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Isn't this suspicious? 
Police thought that these 

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doctors were kind of wasting 
their time. 

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00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,000
They didn't take this as 
seriously as the doctors were 

458
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,280
taking it because police thought
that this was more of a case of 

459
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,960
bad staffing. 
Like, they thought that the 

460
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,760
nurses and the doctors at 
Grantham and Kesteven Hospital 

461
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,960
were not doing a good enough 
job. 

462
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,160
And that was what was leading to
all of these unexpected child 

463
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,680
deaths, cardiac arrests, 
respiratory attacks, 12 of them 

464
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,480
in two months. 
The police kind of just told 

465
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,600
these doctors that maybe they 
should look into training their 

466
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:34,200
staff better instead of accusing
them of like, wrongdoing and 

467
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,880
intentionally harming these 
children. 

468
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,800
But the police did open a formal
inquiry because, I mean, this is

469
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,640
very serious and they needed to.
In fact, there was one man on 

470
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,560
the police force, Superintendent
Stuart Clifton, and he saw this 

471
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,480
case for what it was. 
He saw it exactly how the 

472
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,520
doctors were. 
This was so suspicious. 

473
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,480
Something was going on. 
And Superintendent Stuart 

474
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,160
Clifton got super passionate 
about this case, even though all

475
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,160
of his colleagues were telling 
him is wasting his time and this

476
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,880
investigation is going to lead 
to nowhere. 

477
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,040
He's just wasting police funds. 
But Stuart Clifton was like, 

478
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,440
maybe, but what is if something 
is going on and we ignore it 

479
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,880
because it would waste police 
time or waste funds? 

480
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,360
What if something is going on 
and they're not catching it and 

481
00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:24,160
children just keep dying and 
having their lives ruined from 

482
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,040
these cardiac arrests, these 
respiratory attacks? 

483
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,440
He said he wouldn't be able to 
live with himself if something 

484
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,840
was going on. 
And they'd all just stood by and

485
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,400
done nothing. 
So he didn't care if he was 

486
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,680
wasting his time. 
He was going to put his all into

487
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,160
this investigation. 
And actually, Superintendent 

488
00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:44,800
Stuart Clifton risked losing his
job over this because the other 

489
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,880
police officers were so against 
him spending time and money on 

490
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,840
this. 
And they put in so many 

491
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,760
complaints about him that he 
feared that if he did do this 

492
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,080
investigation and it was all a 
misunderstanding and it was 

493
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,800
actually, you know, unexplained 
medical phenomenons, then he 

494
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,200
could lose his job over that. 
But he was willing to take that 

495
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,600
chance because he told everyone 
that he just had a gut feeling 

496
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,280
that something wasn't right. 
And he needed to trust that, he 

497
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720
needed to follow that because 
children were losing their lives

498
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,240
here. 
So immediately police started 

499
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,800
working inside the hospital. 
There was constant police 

500
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,240
presence on the children ward at
Grantham Hospital. 

501
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,760
And this made everyone quite 
uneasy. 

502
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,320
The staff, the children, their 
parents. 

503
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,800
In fact a lot of the parents of 
the children in that ward 

504
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,080
actually threatened to take 
their children elsewhere because

505
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,760
they didn't like the police 
presence. 

506
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,920
I mean, it was only 
Superintendent Stuart Clifton 

507
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,720
and A a couple of other 
colleagues, but it, it kind of 

508
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,400
made the environment really 
tense. 

509
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,040
As to be expected, police 
presence will make a situation 

510
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,520
quite tense. 
But I mean, no one was really 

511
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,480
looking at the bigger picture. 
Maybe it's worth it. 

512
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,400
It is worth it. 
So police started their 

513
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:59,320
investigation by interviewing 
every single person that worked 

514
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,200
on the children's ward at 
Grantham Hospital. 

515
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,400
And that's not just doctors and 
nurses, that's everyone. 

516
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,880
The cleaners, the admin staff, 
the student nurses, literally 

517
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,600
everyone, anyone and everyone 
that steps foot on that ward is 

518
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,840
getting questioned. 
Beverly Allit was actually one 

519
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,320
of the first to be questioned 
because it was all the doctors 

520
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,760
and nurses that were first. 
And police remembered her just 

521
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,120
being very bright and bubbly and
she seemed very passionate about

522
00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,000
her job. 
She seemed to really care about 

523
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,520
the children and that was about 
it really. 

524
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,920
And when you think about her 
past, Beverly Allen had spent 

525
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,240
her whole entire life lying to 
everyone. 

526
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,320
And at this point, now that 
she's in her 20s, she's good at 

527
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,960
it. 
Like she can lie to anyone and 

528
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,120
get away with anything. 
I don't think she was that 

529
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,280
passionate about this job, but 
police left that interview 

530
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,640
thinking, wow, this woman is a 
St. 

531
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,680
She she loves her job. 
She loves caring for children. 

532
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,360
I don't think she did. 
She just played that role so 

533
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,760
well and everyone believed her. 
So as some of the police 

534
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,160
officers were conducting these 
interviews, there were other 

535
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,760
officers that were trying to 
gather physical evidence, which 

536
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,000
as I'm sure you can imagine, in 
a case like this, it's very hard

537
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,440
to find any physical evidence. 
Luckily for police though, 

538
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,720
Grantham Hospitals still had a 
few frozen blood samples from 9 

539
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,520
of the children that were 
involved in this inquiry, which 

540
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,480
they actually shouldn't have 
had. 

541
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,640
That's kind of naughty. 
They were supposed to get rid of

542
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,360
those blood samples every every 
now and again, they're supposed 

543
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,840
to just clear out the blood 
samples. 

544
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,800
But because the ward was so 
understaffed, they didn't have 

545
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,280
enough people for the amount of 
jobs that they had. 

546
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,440
They just weren't getting around
to a lot of the jobs. 

547
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,400
So to be fair, sometimes it 
helps to be a bit unorganized. 

548
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,400
And now police had physical 
evidence when they weren't 

549
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,160
expecting to get any actually. 
So they sent all of these 

550
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,400
samples off to a hospital in 
Surrey. 

551
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,280
They wanted to send them quite 
far away from Grantham or 

552
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,680
Nottingham because they didn't 
want to risk, I don't know, They

553
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,880
just wanted a complete different
perspective of a hospital that 

554
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,560
is in no way connected or linked
to Grantham or Nottingham or any

555
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,640
in the area. 
So yeah, all these samples were 

556
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,120
sent to Surrey. 
And actually one of these nine 

557
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,160
samples belonged to Paul 
Crampton. 

558
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:09,320
You remember the boy that had 
those insanely high insulin 

559
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,920
levels? 
He supposedly had an insulin 

560
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,640
OMA, but did he really? 
This was the case that Professor

561
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,880
Hull was the most concerned 
about because when Paul Crampton

562
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,320
went to Nottingham Hospital, his
blood tests revealed that his 

563
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:27,080
insulin level was at 500 and the
average for a boy his age is 

564
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:32,880
between 10 and 15500. 
And now they had a blood sample 

565
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,000
of Paul Crampton's from when he 
was in Grantham Hospital that 

566
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,680
they could test against the 
Nottingham Hospital blood 

567
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,160
sample. 
So the hospital in Surrey has 

568
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,800
it, they analyze it, and they 
send those results back to the 

569
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,240
police. 
And you're not going to believe 

570
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,560
this. 
The insulin levels in Paul 

571
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,080
Crampton's blood while he was in
Grantham Hospital were at 

572
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,840
47,000. 
Let me remind you, the average 

573
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,600
for a boy's age, 10 to 1547 
thousand, that's actually the 

574
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:06,160
second highest insulin level 
ever recorded and this is a 5 

575
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,240
year old boy. 
The doctors at Nottingham 

576
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,920
Hospital had thought that that 
500 insulin level reading was an

577
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,640
anomaly and that it was false. 
It was a false reading. 

578
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,560
But now that they had this one 
from Grantham to compare it to 

579
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,000
her, they knew that it wasn't 
false and that this boy had 

580
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,400
insanely unnaturally high 
insulin levels. 

581
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,440
So police actually wanted to 
figure out how Paul Crampton's 

582
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,080
insulin levels had gone from 
47,000 at Grantham Hospital to 

583
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,800
500 at Nottingham the very next 
day. 

584
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,920
How would that been such a 
drastic drop in less than 24 

585
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,840
hours? 
So police looked into this and 

586
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,680
they actually found that the 
equipment used at Nottingham 

587
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,120
Hospital to test his blood 
sample only went up to 500. 

588
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,680
So that meant that his insulin 
level could have been over 500, 

589
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,280
but this machine can't, can't 
say that. 

590
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,000
All it can say is 500. 
So it's more than likely that 

591
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,280
Paul Crampton's levels would 
have still been in the 10s of 

592
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,080
thousands when he was at 
Nottingham Hospital, but that 

593
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,160
machine just had no way of 
reading that high. 

594
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,120
So now police are questioning 
how and why this could have 

595
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,400
happened. 
This is a 5 year old boy with 

596
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,320
the second highest insulin level
ever recorded. 

597
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,640
Something's not right, something
is not right. 

598
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,080
Police feared that someone in 
that hospital, one of the staff 

599
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,840
members, could have been 
intentionally overdosing these 

600
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,520
children with insulin, trying to
give them an insulin overdose. 

601
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,800
And so they started researching 
the concept of insulin overdose 

602
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,080
just as a thing. 
They just started researching it

603
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,840
online and that was when they 
stumbled across a medical report

604
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,880
that detailed 2 separate cases 
of insulin overdose that had 

605
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120
happened as a result of 
Munchausen by proxy. 

606
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,160
And this is essentially what 
Beverly Allit had, you know, 

607
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,560
Munchausen syndrome. 
It's where you make yourself ill

608
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,920
or hurt yourself for sympathy or
attention. 

609
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,440
Now, the by proxy bit means that
you're not doing that to 

610
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,840
yourself, you're doing that to 
someone else. 

611
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,440
You're hurting or harming 
someone else for the that 

612
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800
attention or sympathy. 
It's like if you've ever heard 

613
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,800
the case of Dee Dee Blanchard 
before. 

614
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,000
I feel like a lot of people 
have. 

615
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,400
If you've ever watched the ACT 
was that on Hulu? 

616
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,800
Very similar thing there. 
Or if you've ever seen it, you 

617
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,000
know the kid Eddie, his mum had 
Munchausen syndrome by proxy and

618
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,200
she like gave him all these 
medications to make him I'll 

619
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,680
even though he wasn't ill. 
But anyway, I'm getting off 

620
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,920
track there talking about it 
back to the medical report. 

621
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,320
Both of these cases that were 
detailed in the medical report 

622
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,440
of insulin over dose were 
actually from mothers 

623
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,560
intentionally injecting their 
daughters with insulin, trying 

624
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,760
to make them overdose on it. 
And for these mothers, it was 

625
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,320
all about attention and 
sympathy, sometimes even 

626
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,080
financial gain. 
And police read this report and 

627
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,640
they feared that someone at the 
Grantham Hospital was doing 

628
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,280
this, this exact thing to their 
patients. 

629
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,000
So with this in mind, police 
went back to the Grantham 

630
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,080
Hospital and they started asking
the staff about their drug 

631
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,800
protocols. 
You know, where do they store 

632
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,160
the insulin? 
How is it administered? 

633
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,120
They wanted to know everything 
about how it's done. 

634
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,960
But the police were informed 
that all of their insulin was 

635
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,440
kept in this one big fridge that
had a big lock on it. 

636
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,960
However, the key for that lock 
had been missing for months. 

637
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,200
And so the fridge had just 
remained unlocked for months. 

638
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,200
And the last person that was 
known to have that key to the 

639
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,520
fridge, I feel like you've 
already guessed it. 

640
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,800
It was Nurse Beverly Allit. 
She was the last person recorded

641
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,280
to have that key. 
She claimed that at the end of 

642
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,200
her shift when she had the key, 
she said she handed it over to 

643
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,240
the nurse on the next shift 
after her. 

644
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,400
However, that next nurse said 
now she never handed me 

645
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,080
anything. 
She never gave me anything. 

646
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,520
So Nurse Beverly Alley was the 
last person to ever have that. 

647
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,480
I don't know why they didn't 
look into that at the hospital. 

648
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,160
Probably the understaffing 
issue. 

649
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,080
Again, they don't have time to 
investigate anything, I suppose,

650
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,320
at this hospital, which is very 
dangerous when such suspicious 

651
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,120
things are happening left, right
and centre. 

652
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640
I feel like maybe it's time to 
hire more people. 

653
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,200
So as soon as police heard this,
that Beverly Alley had that key,

654
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,960
probably. 
I mean, there's no evidence to 

655
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,280
say that she did, But like, come
on. 

656
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,960
And the insulin fridge had just 
stayed open and accessible to 

657
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,200
anyone at any time for the last 
two months. 

658
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,000
This was just consolidating 
their theory more and more that 

659
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,880
maybe Beverly was intentionally 
overdosing these children. 

660
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,760
So at this point, police got in 
touch with Surrey Hospital who 

661
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,080
still had all the samples, they 
were still doing the test and 

662
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,320
they were like, can you get a 
shift on with this? 

663
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,960
Like can you do this a bit 
quicker? 

664
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,200
Because it's looking really 
scary on our end. 

665
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,560
And so Surrey did all the tests 
pretty much the same day, sent 

666
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,960
the results back to the police. 
And what do you know, every 

667
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,120
single one of those samples from
Grantham Hospital had high, high

668
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,520
insulin levels. 
Every single one of these 

669
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:59,000
children that had, you know, 
unexpected cardiac arrests or 

670
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,840
respiratory attacks, they all 
had something in common. 

671
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,960
These insanely high insulin 
levels. 

672
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:08,040
In fact, actually not all of 
them were insulin levels, but 

673
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,560
all of these children had 
insanely high levels of 

674
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,320
something. 
Most often it was insulin, but 

675
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,440
some of the others were like 
other injectable drugs. 

676
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,199
Becky Phillips, you know the 
nine week old premature baby 

677
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:27,120
that died, her blood sample read
9000 units of insulin, a nine 

678
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,000
week old premature baby as well.
Whereas the most recent death of

679
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,239
baby Claire Peck, her blood 
sample came back and read an 

680
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,120
insanely high level of a drug 
named lignacaine, which is a 

681
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:42,320
cardiac drug that is never given
to children and it was given to 

682
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,760
a 15 month old baby. 
And as soon as police saw all of

683
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,360
this evidence come back from 
Surrey, they knew that they were

684
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,280
right that someone in that 
hospital had to be intentionally

685
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,760
injecting these children, trying
to make them overdose, trying to

686
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,120
make them I'll even trying to 
kill them. 

687
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,880
So with all of this information,
police started to compare all 

688
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,160
the data that they had for all 
these different 13 children, all

689
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,760
these 13 cases, and they 
realized that all of them had 

690
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,120
one thing in common. 
And that was the that nurse 

691
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:16,120
Beverly Allet was working on the
day that these children all had 

692
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,800
their attacks. 
In fact, she'd only started 

693
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,960
working there at the children's 
ward two days before the first 

694
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,520
attack. 
So she arrives 2 days later, all

695
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,320
these children start falling 
suddenly and severely. 

696
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,840
I'll, their heart's stopping, 
they're stopping breathing, 

697
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,640
they're turning blue as soon as 
Beverly Allet arrives. 

698
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,520
And with that, she was the prime
suspect in this case, and police

699
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,120
knew they needed to act quickly 
in order to save any other 

700
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,720
children on that ward. 
So that same day, security 

701
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:50,040
cameras were installed all over 
the children's ward. 

702
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,000
All of the parents of all of 
these 13 cases, they were all 

703
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,560
interviewed and mainly asked 
about Beverly Allit actually, 

704
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,880
because they wanted to see how 
she'd been interacting with 

705
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,640
people. 
Police went and checked all of 

706
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,680
the children's records again, a 
double check actually, because I

707
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,000
think they'd checked them 
before. 

708
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,280
But this time, they found that 
Paul Crampton's records were 

709
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,600
were missing, and that was the 
main case that police and 

710
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,080
Professor Hull were the most 
concerned about. 

711
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,760
So could it be that someone had 
stolen these records or 

712
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,680
destroyed them or tried to get 
rid of them somehow? 

713
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,280
Physical evidence was really, 
really hard to come by in this 

714
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,760
case, like we've said. 
I mean, especially because this 

715
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,400
is a hospital as well, one of 
the most sanitized places on 

716
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,560
earth. 
So police really had to rely 

717
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,280
more on, like, circumstantial 
evidence and witness testimony 

718
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,560
and interviews and things like 
that. 

719
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,600
And now that they'd identified 
their prime suspect, Beverly 

720
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,520
Allit, they could come at this 
from another angle. 

721
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,240
And they started to look into 
Beverly as a person to see if 

722
00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:55,120
there were any clues in her 
life, you know, that could link 

723
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,880
to this case at all. 
And that was when they found 

724
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,160
that she had Munchausen 
syndrome. 

725
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,760
And as soon as police found that
out, they just knew they had the

726
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,280
right person. 
They knew it. 

727
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,280
She was doing the same thing 
that she'd always done to 

728
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,280
herself for years and years and 
years. 

729
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,160
But when that stopped getting 
her attention, she'd start doing

730
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,920
it to other people. 
She was harming other people. 

731
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,840
Now it seemed that her 
Munchausen syndrome had 

732
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,280
developed into Munchausen 
syndrome by proxy. 

733
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,600
So on May 21st, 1991, police 
turned up at Beverly Allen's 

734
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,800
house at 7:00 AM to arrest her, 
Although they had to be careful 

735
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,640
what they actually arrested her 
for because like I said, they 

736
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,680
really didn't have like, any 
evidence at this point. 

737
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,280
I mean, they had evidence that 
the children were not dying 

738
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,040
naturally, but they didn't have 
any evidence that Beverly 

739
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,680
herself was the one doing it. 
So they actually had to arrest 

740
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,480
her for stealing the insulin 
fridge key and the attempted 

741
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,080
murder of Paul Crampton. 
They were the only things that 

742
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,600
they actually had evidence for, 
but they managed to arrest her 

743
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,880
and they took her to the police 
station for an interview. 

744
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,640
But to be honest, she was just 
so chill about the whole thing. 

745
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,360
Like not like in a oh, I don't 
care kind of way, but more in AI

746
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:09,880
don't know. 
She just wasn't anxious. 

747
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,320
She wasn't worried. 
She was more playing this caring

748
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,080
nurse role as she always had. 
She was acting like she wanted 

749
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,720
to do this interview to help the
police solve this case. 

750
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,360
You know, she was still telling 
them how passionate she was 

751
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,840
about her job and how much she 
loved it and how much she loved 

752
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,720
caring for people and she loved 
her patients and all that kind 

753
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:31,440
of stuff. 
And this whole situation was 

754
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,240
just really odd, no matter what 
way you looked at it. 

755
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,680
Because if she was guilty and 
she was trying to kill all of 

756
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,480
these children, she had been 
doing this on purpose, then she 

757
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,440
was a scarily convincing liar. 
She was good at lying. 

758
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,640
But alternatively, if she was 
innocent and she wasn't lying 

759
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,360
and she was just this great 
nurse, then why didn't she care 

760
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,600
more about being accused of 
murdering her patients that she 

761
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,320
so loved? 
Apparently, according to her, I 

762
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,240
don't know. 
I think if I was a nurse and I 

763
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,040
was so passionate about my job 
and someone accused me of 

764
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,600
intentionally harming my 
patients, I would be so 

765
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,040
offended, so offended. 
But she didn't seem bothered 

766
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,760
that she was being accused of 
this. 

767
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,400
So as Beverly was being 
interviewed at the police 

768
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,320
station, other police officers 
were sent to her house to 

769
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,880
perform a full search. 
And they found some damning 

770
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,160
evidence in her house. 
They found Paul Crampton's 

771
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,600
missing records that seem to 
have been stolen from the 

772
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:32,560
hospital in Beverly's home, and 
right next to them, a syringe. 

773
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:38,560
Was she keeping these things as 
mementos of what she'd done to 

774
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,560
that poor 5 year old boy? 
So police decided that the next 

775
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,160
thing they should do is bring in
a psychiatrist to assess Beverly

776
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,360
Allit in the police station, 
because obviously their main 

777
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,840
theory involved her having a 
very serious mental illness. 

778
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,160
So they needed to get like a 
diagnosis. 

779
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,920
They needed confirmation that 
she had Munchausen syndrome or 

780
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,400
Munchausen syndrome by proxy. 
So the psychiatrist came in and 

781
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,280
spoke with Beverly and 
immediately, yeah, she had 

782
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,760
Munchausen's and they pinpointed
the. 

783
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,520
Development of her Munchausen 
syndrome to be right when she 

784
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,040
got rejected from grammar 
school, do you remember her 

785
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,120
parents really wanted her to go 
to this prestigious school and 

786
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,200
her sister had gotten into that 
school, but Beverly couldn't. 

787
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:21,000
She didn't pass the test to get 
in. 

788
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,160
She felt inferior to her 
intelligent older sister and 

789
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,680
it's believed that from that 
point on she felt she needed to 

790
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,200
do other things to get her 
parents attention. 

791
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,920
And that was when she developed 
Munchausen's and started harming

792
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,080
herself to try and get sympathy 
from her parents. 

793
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,280
And it did work at first, we 
know it did. 

794
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,240
People gave her sympathy for 
putting random bandages on and 

795
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,640
plasters. 
But after a while that didn't 

796
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,800
work. 
So she had to up the levels. 

797
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,440
And at that point she was 
getting like her appendix taken 

798
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,280
out. 
She was picking at her wounds, 

799
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,520
trying to infect her wounds like
it got to another level. 

800
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,480
But then that stopped working as
well. 

801
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,320
The psychiatrist believed that 
her Munchausen syndrome turned 

802
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,080
into Munchausen syndrome by 
proxy around the time that she 

803
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,200
started actually working at the 
hospital. 

804
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,080
Because like I said, she had 
like 160 sick days in a year and

805
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,360
the hospital were like, you 
can't do that. 

806
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,840
You can't do that in a job. 
We don't want you to work at the

807
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,120
hospital if you're going to be 
having that much time off. 

808
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,920
And all of a sudden her munch 
houses was affecting her life 

809
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,440
and actually being off work so 
much was having the adverse 

810
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,560
effect to what she really 
wanted. 

811
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,120
She wanted attention. 
She wanted people to love her 

812
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,400
and and empathize with her and, 
you know, care for her, but 

813
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,440
people were starting to not like
her, her now because she's 

814
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,160
having too much time off work. 
So all of a sudden this isn't 

815
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,800
working. 
She needs to figure out a new 

816
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,760
way to get attention and 
sympathy. 

817
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,640
And that was when she realized 
that she could intentionally 

818
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,720
harm her patients. 
And then as nurse Beverly Allit,

819
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,560
she could swoop in and save them
and save the day and save their 

820
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,240
lives and be a hero. 
Their parents would love her. 

821
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:02,920
Everyone on the ward would love 
her. 

822
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,200
She would finally get that 
attention that she wanted, all 

823
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,560
she needed to do to make sure 
that she was around when these 

824
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,280
children fell ill so that she 
could be the one to treat them. 

825
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,600
And the way that she did that 
was by making them ill herself. 

826
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,760
So it wasn't exactly sympathy 
that she was doing it for 

827
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,360
anymore. 
It was more like praise, but 

828
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,520
that was good enough, that 
worked. 

829
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,120
That was a good enough 
substitute for her. 

830
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,760
And it's just sickening that 
this plan actually worked. 

831
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:33,080
Time and time again, it worked. 
And especially all the case of 

832
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,800
Katie and Becky Phillips, those 
premature twins, That case just 

833
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,960
absolutely boils my blood. 
Beverly Allit murdered one of 

834
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,160
those babies and severely 
disabled another within the 

835
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,840
space of a few days. 
And both times those poor girls 

836
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,560
parents praised Beverly Allit, 
thanked her for for helping 

837
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,360
their daughters. 
And actually they adored her so 

838
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,840
much for all that she'd done for
their daughters that they made 

839
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,600
her Katie's godmother. 
My heart just absolutely breaks 

840
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,640
for the Phillips family. 
Imagine finding out that you had

841
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,920
made your daughter's murderer 
and your other daughter's 

842
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,160
attempted murderer a part of 
your family out of the good of 

843
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,080
your heart. 
I think I got a little bit off 

844
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,640
track there, but we were talking
about the psychiatrist 

845
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,080
evaluation of her, and this 
psychiatrist actually noted on 

846
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,440
file that Beverly had a lot of 
symptoms that were in line with 

847
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,520
a personality disorder. 
Now, I don't think they actually

848
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,560
named any specific personality 
disorder and I don't know if she

849
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,000
was actually diagnosed with one,
but they basically said that it 

850
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,400
was probably this personality 
disorder or these symptoms that 

851
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,800
are in line with a personality 
disorder that allowed her to do 

852
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,720
this for so long because she 
just didn't really realize the 

853
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:51,000
gravity of the situation. 
Her Munchausen's and this 

854
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,720
personality disorder, once they 
were together, that's what led 

855
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,080
to this absolute disaster 
because people can have 

856
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,600
Munchausen's and people can have
personality disorders and you 

857
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,360
know, never do anything like 
this. 

858
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,120
But the psychiatrist believe 
that both of these things 

859
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,680
together is what led to this. 
So very early on in this 

860
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,480
investigation, it was very clear
to police that they weren't 

861
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,360
going to get any confessions out
of Beverly. 

862
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,560
She was she wasn't going to 
admit to anything. 

863
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,280
They knew that they needed other
evidence. 

864
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,040
But like I said, physical 
evidence is just so hard to get 

865
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,520
in a case like this. 
And actually, they were running 

866
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,720
out of time because like I said,
they'd arrested Beverly on a 

867
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:33,240
couple of charges, but they're 
only actually allowed to keep 

868
00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:36,240
her in the police station for 
what is it like 72 hours, 3 

869
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:38,440
days? 
So it was coming to the end of 

870
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,320
that. 
And if they can't charge her 

871
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,160
with anything at the end of 72 
hours, they have to let her go. 

872
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,480
That's just the rules. 
And actually, that time came and

873
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,040
police just didn't have the 
physical evidence to be able to 

874
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,120
charge her with anything, and 
they had to let her go. 

875
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,400
So Beverly Alley left the police
station. 

876
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,080
And by the time she got home, 
her house was swarming with 

877
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,520
journalists and photographers, 
people wanting to see this woman

878
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,800
because everyone kind of knew 
that this case was going on. 

879
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,680
This case had become huge in the
public eye over the last few 

880
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,320
days. 
And actually, the day that 

881
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,760
Beverly left the police station,
Grantham and Kesteven Hospital 

882
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,440
put out a statement saying that 
she'd been put on leave pending 

883
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,160
the results of this 
investigation. 

884
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,840
So she'd been suspended from her
job and this actually sparked a 

885
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,400
lot of interesting responses. 
A lot of people felt that this 

886
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,640
was the right thing to do, this 
was the appropriate thing to do 

887
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,080
in a situation like this. 
But a lot of people also didn't.

888
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:39,040
Most of those people actually 
being Beverly's victim's parents

889
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,520
who came forward in her defence 
saying, oh, she must have been 

890
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,600
framed, she's innocent, someone 
must be framing her like they 

891
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,920
were just convinced. 
The parents didn't doubt that 

892
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,960
their children were attacked or 
harmed or even murdered by a 

893
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,720
member of staff at that 
hospital. 

894
00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:00,400
And they were still heartbroken,
devastated, angry that someone 

895
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,160
had done that to their child. 
But they didn't think it was 

896
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,160
Beverly. 
They thought that another member

897
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,720
of staff on that ward had been 
doing this to the children. 

898
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,320
And then they tried to frame 
Beverly for it. 

899
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,120
To be honest, a lot of them 
thought that it was the police's

900
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,440
fault and that they knew that 
someone on that ward was killing

901
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,880
children and they couldn't 
figure out who it was. 

902
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,000
And so they just arrested 
Beverly so that they could say 

903
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,400
that they had someone for it. 
You know what I mean? 

904
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,120
One family actually went so far 
as to hire a private 

905
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,360
investigator because they 
believed Beverly was innocent. 

906
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,320
They hired this investigator to 
look into the police 

907
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,280
investigation of Beverly and try
and figure out if anything was 

908
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,720
like faked or staged or if 
Beverly was framed. 

909
00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:47,520
And if that doesn't show how 
much of A sickeningly good liar 

910
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:51,400
and manipulator Beverly Allit 
was, she'd fooled the whole 

911
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:56,360
entire world, including the 
parents of her murder victims. 

912
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,040
So anyway, like I said, Beverly 
Alley is released from the 

913
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,000
police station and she goes back
to her house that is absolutely 

914
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,760
swarming with press, so much so 
that she can't live there. 

915
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,600
She can't stay in that house. 
And so she moved in with her 

916
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,320
friend named Tracy Jobson. 
Tracy actually lived with her 

917
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,240
mother, Eileen, and her brother 
Jonathan. 

918
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,360
So Beverly's moving into like, 
this family home. 

919
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,600
And of course, she's not working
at this point. 

920
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,480
And as soon as she stopped 
working at that hospital, the 

921
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,720
cardiac arrest just stopped. 
But weird goings on seem to 

922
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,080
follow Beverly Allen wherever 
she goes. 

923
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,040
If she's at the hospital, 
they're at the hospital. 

924
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,160
But when she's not there 
anymore, they follow her to her 

925
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,520
friend's house. 
And weird things started 

926
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,200
happening at Tracy's house, now 
mainly involving her brother, 

927
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,520
Jonathan. 
One day, Jonathan walked into 

928
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,920
his bedroom and found that 
there'd been bleach poured all 

929
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,320
over his bed, and no one 
admitted to it. 

930
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,120
And there was another incident 
actually, with the family dog 

931
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,160
where they came home one day and
they found this poor dog rolling

932
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,880
around uncontrollably. 
It was frothing at the mouth. 

933
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,960
They had to race it to the vet. 
The vet determined that the dog 

934
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,640
must have ingested a large 
amount of pills, and they knew 

935
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,360
exactly what kind of pill as 
well. 

936
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,920
It was a pill that had been 
prescribed to Eileen that she 

937
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,680
kept on the top shelf in the 
bathroom, somewhere the dog 

938
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,760
could have never gotten to on 
its own. 

939
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,040
Eileen was immediately 
suspicious of Beverly Allit 

940
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,000
because they all knew why she 
was being looked into by the 

941
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,480
police. 
They all knew that she had 

942
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,200
Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen 
syndrome by proxy. 

943
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,960
They knew the kind of shit that 
she got up to. 

944
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,600
And so Eileen got home from the 
vet that day and she pulled her 

945
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,760
daughter and her son into a 
room, Tracy and Jonathan. 

946
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,960
And she was like, look, please 
tell me that neither of you guys

947
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,600
left my pills out on the side. 
Both of them said, no, obviously

948
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,600
not. 
Why would we get your pills from

949
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,640
the top drawer and just leave 
them out on the side for the dog

950
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,560
to have? 
This had never happened before, 

951
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,240
ever. 
And that left only one other 

952
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,760
person in that house that could 
have done this. 

953
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,760
And so Eileen went and 
confronted Beverly Allit and she

954
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,800
gave the most insane cover story
you have ever heard. 

955
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,320
You're going to love this. 
Beverly said that she had seen a

956
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,640
poltergeist in the house, an 
evil spirit moving things 

957
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,760
around, picking things up, 
opening cupboards and just 

958
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,000
causing general havoc in the 
house. 

959
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,760
And so she said, oh, it must 
have been, it must have been the

960
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,800
poltergeist that got your 
medication out, fed it to the 

961
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,040
dog. 
And the family just could not 

962
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,360
believe their ears as Beverly 
was saying this. 

963
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:28,840
I mean, like, what do you say to
that? 

964
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,880
Because it's obviously a lie. 
How do I don't even know how 

965
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,640
they would have reacted to that.
But anyway, in the following 

966
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,960
days, some more weird little 
things kept happening around the

967
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,840
house until Jonathan was 
hospitalized. 

968
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,760
The whole family and Beverly 
Alley had all been out at a 

969
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,080
local market that day. 
They'd just been walking around,

970
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,200
shopping, whatever. 
And Jonathan had kept 

971
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,560
complaining all day that he 
didn't feel well, he wasn't 

972
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,960
feeling good. 
And then all of a sudden he 

973
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,240
collapsed in the middle of the 
street and they had to phone an 

974
00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:00,080
ambulance and rush him to 
hospital. 

975
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,320
So doctors checked to him over, 
they examined him. 

976
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,120
They did loads of tests and 
swabs and samples, and they 

977
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,760
determined that he was having a 
hypoglycemic attack. 

978
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,040
His insulin levels were insanely
high. 

979
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,960
And it turned out that right 
before they'd all left for the 

980
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,520
market that day, Beverly and 
Jonathan had been home alone. 

981
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:21,680
And Beverly had offered to make 
Jonathan a drink, and he 

982
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,720
accepted. 
So she brought him this like 

983
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,040
blackcurrant squash, like the 
dilute juice, and Jonathan drank

984
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,760
it all. 
And he remembered thinking at 

985
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,000
the time that it tasted weird, 
but he drank it anyway. 

986
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,480
And no wonder it tasted weird 
because Beverly Allit had 

987
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,960
poisoned it with insulin. 
And as soon as the family found 

988
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,920
this out, Eileen was on the 
phone to the police telling them

989
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,720
that she had struck again. 
And Beverly had actually shot 

990
00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:49,000
herself in the foot here because
the fact that she had acted the 

991
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,520
exact same in a different 
environment, the fact that these

992
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,200
insulin poisonings seem to 
follow her around was enough 

993
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,560
evidence for police to arrest 
her and have evidence that she'd

994
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,840
done all of the insulin 
poisonings. 

995
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,520
This pretty much proved that it 
couldn't have been anyone else 

996
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,600
on the children's ward poisoning
the kids and then framing 

997
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,960
Beverly Allit for it because she
was still doing it wherever she 

998
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,640
was. 
So in November of 1991, 

999
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,840
literally the same year that she
started her job at that 

1000
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,960
hospital, Beverly Allit was 
charged with four counts of 

1001
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,560
murder, 8 counts of attempted 
murder, and one count of GBH 

1002
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,520
grievous bodily harm. 
So now she was brought into the 

1003
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,560
police station and interviewed 
again, but but this time, she 

1004
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,200
was completely different. 
It was like she just dropped 

1005
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,160
that persona that she was 
putting on. 

1006
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,480
Before that, she was a caring, 
loving, passionate nurse. 

1007
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,720
And now she was just cold, 
emotionless. 

1008
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,000
Now she was like, oh, I don't 
care about this. 

1009
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,640
In Beverly's first court 
appearance, she plead not 

1010
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,200
guilty. 
And so a trial was set for 15 

1011
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,440
months time after that. 
And through that 15 months, as 

1012
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,400
they awaited for the trial, 
Beverly's mental health just 

1013
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,000
seemed to get worse and worse 
and worse. 

1014
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:04,200
She actually developed anorexia 
and lost 70 lbs, which is 31 

1015
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,000
kilograms. 
And she was in a really bad way,

1016
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,920
so much so that the trial 
actually had to be postponed 

1017
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,640
like further than 15 months so 
that they could get her physical

1018
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,960
health back on track before they
went ahead with it. 

1019
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,680
Finally, in 1993, Beverly 
Allett's trial began. 

1020
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:22,440
And if this isn't the most 
Beverly Allett thing you've ever

1021
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,080
heard, she actually only 
attended like half of her trial 

1022
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,480
because she was ill for half of 
it. 

1023
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,360
She was throwing sickies on her 
own murder trial, just like she 

1024
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,480
had everything else in her whole
entire life. 

1025
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,880
The trial was two months long in
total, and of that two months, 

1026
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:44,120
Beverly Allet attended 16 days 
of her own trial. 

1027
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,840
The prosecution presented all of
the evidence that we've already 

1028
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,360
talked about throughout these 
two videos, but they also 

1029
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,200
brought up some very interesting
points. 

1030
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:55,600
Remember how in the case of 
Katie Phillips, the six week old

1031
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,720
premature baby, they found that 
six of her ribs, her tiny little

1032
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:02,600
ribs were broken and that was 
completely unexplained. 

1033
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,080
Her parents had no idea how her 
ribs could be broken. 

1034
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,720
And also there was the case of 
Christopher Peasgood where there

1035
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:11,720
were signs that he'd been 
smothered and that was never 

1036
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:14,200
looked into. 
It seemed that Beverly was doing

1037
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,440
more than just injecting these 
kids with insulin and trying to 

1038
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,960
make them overdose. 
She was abusing them as well. 

1039
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,240
It seemed that she just enjoyed 
harming these innocent children.

1040
00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:28,680
She was cold and calculated and 
evil. 

1041
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:33,000
She wanted to see these 
children, these babies in pain. 

1042
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,760
And the most horrifying part of 
all of this is that persona that

1043
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,440
she would put on for the 
victim's parents, as if she 

1044
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,760
hadn't just been breaking six of
their child's ribs in a 

1045
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:45,960
different room. 
She would come out and she would

1046
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:50,240
be that amazing, bright, smiley,
comforting nurse that they all 

1047
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:53,120
thought she was, so much so that
they would make her the 

1048
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:57,400
godmother of the child whose 
ribs she just broke. 

1049
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,120
And also remember, there's been 
a few points throughout this 

1050
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,000
case where these children would 
stop breathing, but the monitors

1051
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,720
wouldn't go off. 
They wouldn't alert that the 

1052
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:08,120
child had stopped breathing. 
And I feel like you probably 

1053
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,840
already know why. 
It's because Beverly Allit would

1054
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:15,240
switch off those monitors so 
that, you know, the children 

1055
00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:18,160
wouldn't be saved. 
It was also found that when 

1056
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,680
these kids would be given 
oxygen, you know, when they're 

1057
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,040
being resuscitated by the rest 
of the team, Beverly would 

1058
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:29,040
secretly pinch the oxygen tubes 
to stop the flow of oxygen to 

1059
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,200
the children. 
And actually, it wasn't just 

1060
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,560
while the kids were being 
resuscitated because remember, a

1061
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,560
lot of the kids on the 
children's ward were there for 

1062
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,000
things like chest infections and
asthma. 

1063
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,000
They just needed oxygen in 
general. 

1064
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,360
A lot of them were just 
constantly hooked up and she 

1065
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,480
would just go in there rooms and
pinch the oxygen tubes so that 

1066
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,280
these kids wouldn't be getting 
the air. 

1067
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,640
Oh my God, she knew what she was
doing at every point here. 

1068
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,480
She was so calculated and I just
can't believe the front that she

1069
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,360
would put on for everyone all 
the time. 

1070
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,440
Even the police, when they first
interviewed her, they thought 

1071
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,200
she was an amazing nurse. 
Everyone did. 

1072
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,520
One rather interesting thing 
that was brought up in court, 

1073
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,920
and I want to give a trigger 
warning for the anorexia stuff 

1074
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,760
here because I feel like this 
could upset some people. 

1075
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,280
So maybe skip forward a little 
bit if that might affect you. 

1076
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:19,400
But the psychiatrist suggested 
in court that maybe Beverly had 

1077
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:25,240
intentionally developed anorexia
as a manifestation of her 

1078
00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:29,080
Munchausen syndrome because she 
wasn't getting attention from 

1079
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,080
anything anymore. 
No one was giving her attention 

1080
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,440
for any anything. 
And that was kind of the only 

1081
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:39,200
thing that she was able to 
control all her life is her 

1082
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,920
health and how other people 
responded to it. 

1083
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,120
That was the only way she knew 
to get attention. 

1084
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,400
When she craved it was by 
hurting herself. 

1085
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,160
And so this psychiatrist said 
that maybe she did this 

1086
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:54,080
intentionally, but I do just 
want to clarify that anorexia is

1087
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,520
a mental illness. 
People don't just choose to 

1088
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,200
develop that intentionally, 
which is why I felt the trigger 

1089
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,120
warning was necessary because 
this is a very unique, um, case 

1090
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,120
here. 
She was genuinely really 

1091
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,120
physically and mentally unwell 
with her anorexia. 

1092
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,920
That's not up for debate. 
She was struggling with it, 

1093
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,840
however the psychiatrist was 
suggesting how it might have 

1094
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,120
possibly come about in the 1st 
place. 

1095
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,880
The psychiatrist actually ended 
his statement in court by saying

1096
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:26,640
that Beverly Allit was so 
severely mentally ill that he 

1097
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,200
didn't think that she could ever
be cured and she would be a 

1098
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,960
danger to everyone that she 
would come in contact with for 

1099
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,000
the rest of her life. 
At the end of her trial, Beverly

1100
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,280
Allit was found guilty on all 
counts. 

1101
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,880
In the space of just 59 days, 22
year old Beverly Allit had 

1102
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:48,400
murdered four children and 
attempted to murder another 9. 

1103
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:52,840
For that, she was given 13 life 
sentences and she's actually 

1104
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,960
been placed on a list of 
criminals that will never be 

1105
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,960
released from prison for public 
safety reasons. 

1106
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,680
At the time, Beverly Allit's 
sentence was actually the 

1107
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,920
strictest sentence ever given to
a woman in the UK, and it's 

1108
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,760
actually only been beaten by two
women since that, Rose West and 

1109
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,400
Joanna Dennehy. 
Due to her mental illness, 

1110
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,040
Beverly Allit was actually 
detained under the Mental Health

1111
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:20,040
Act and she was sent to Rampton 
Secure Hospital instead of a 

1112
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,440
prison. 
And Rampton Hospital is very 

1113
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,560
similar to Broadmoor. 
You've heard me talk about 

1114
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,480
Broadmoor so many times on this 
channel. 

1115
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:32,200
A very secure like Max security 
psychiatric hospital for the 

1116
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,640
criminally insane. 
They're filled with like some of

1117
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,040
the worst criminals in the whole
entire country. 

1118
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,000
We're talking murderers, serial 
killers, rapists. 

1119
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,640
All the worst are the worst. 
Some notorious patients of 

1120
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,000
Rampton Secure hospital include 
Ian Huntley, the man that 

1121
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,320
murdered Holly and Jessica the 
sower murders. 

1122
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,040
There was Steven Griffiths, the 
crossbow cannibal. 

1123
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,480
We've covered that case on this 
channel before as well. 

1124
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:58,200
A guy called Peter Bryan who was
a cannibal serial killer and 

1125
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,840
also the guy that tried to 
kidnap Prince Anne, what was his

1126
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,120
name? 
Ian Ball. 

1127
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,240
Ian Ball. 
Did I say Prince Anne? 

1128
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,920
Princess Anne? 
So anyway, Beverly Allit was 

1129
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,480
sent to Rampton Secure Hospital 
and just because she was in 

1130
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,000
there doesn't mean the 
Munchausen syndrome just turns 

1131
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,960
off. 
She was still doing stuff in 

1132
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,000
there, like pouring boiling 
water on herself and stuff and 

1133
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,120
Oh my God, OK, one of the worst 
things she did. 

1134
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,840
Squeamish warning here just in 
case she actually ground up 

1135
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,400
loads of broken glass, like 
ground it right into a powder 

1136
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,040
and then put that in a syringe. 
Don't know how she got hold of 

1137
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syringe in this hospital and 
injected herself with it. 

1138
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,320
All for attention, all for 
sympathy. 

1139
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,680
She got nothing else out of 
doing that to herself other than

1140
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attention and a lot of pain. 
Following this case, the 

1141
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children's ward at Grantham and 
Kesteven Hospital has been 

1142
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,400
completely shut down. 
They no longer have a children's

1143
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,800
ward just because of the 
horrendous memories and 

1144
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,800
connotations that would go 
alongside that. 

1145
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,600
They just didn't want to keep 
operating after what happened. 

1146
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,640
They didn't want a children's 
ward after everything that that 

1147
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,160
everyone been through and all of
the staff that were on the 

1148
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,360
children's ward were sent to 
different departments. 

1149
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,920
They didn't just lose their job.
Don't worry. 

1150
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:09,080
Beverly has since admitted to 
three out of the four murders 

1151
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,520
and six of the other attacks, 
but she claims no responsibility

1152
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,160
for the other ones. 
But even though she does admit 

1153
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,440
to those things now, she's still
not showing remorse. 

1154
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,760
She's still not sorry. 
She's never apologized to 

1155
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,400
anyone, to the victim's parents,
to to no one. 

1156
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,280
She doesn't care. 
She doesn't care what she did. 

1157
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,520
She's a cold, calculated evil 
woman. 

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00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,880
And that is all for this 
episode. 

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Thank you so much for tuning 
into Outlaw Podcast. 

1160
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,400
Make sure to follow us, rate the
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1161
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:41,880
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