In 1991, the children's ward at Grantham Hospital found itself
in a state of panic. So many children were falling
very suddenly and seriously ill. Their hearts were literally
stopping out of nowhere. They'd already lost two children
to these unexplained attacks and almost lost a further to.
But this was only the start of the devastation that would take
place while the Angel of Death was on the job.
Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast.
I'm Eleanor Neil and today we're serving you up a true crime case
from the vault. This episode was originally
posted to my YouTube channel years ago before we existed as
Outlaw Podcast, but I think it's time we add it to the Outlaw
catalog. So now I will hand back to me
from the past to take it away with today's vault case.
Oh, and by the way, today's case has multiple parts.
This is actually Part 2. So if you haven't seen Part 1
yet, which was our most recent upload, well go watch that one
first and then come back here and watch Part 2.
So today's video is going to be Part 2 of the Beverly Alec case,
the Angel of death, the nightmare nurse.
She goes by so many different names.
Before we get into the rest of the case, I do just want to give
content warnings, although they are the same as Part 1.
So if you couldn't watch Part 1, you probably won't be able to
watch Part 2. So in this video, we're going to
be discussing the murders of very young children, even
babies. We're also going to be
discussing a lot of different mental illnesses, including
personality disorders, self harm, anorexia, Munchausen
syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
There's also going to be brief mentions of animal abuse, rape,
and domestic violence. So if any of that is something
that you don't want to hear about right now, I completely
understand. Just click out the video and
hopefully I'll catch you again with a different video another
time. But yeah, all of that being
said, I already gave a little bit of a summary at the start of
the video, so let's just get straight into part.
So the next child to fall suddenly I'll at Grantham
Hospital. This happened literally the day
after Paul Crampton was transferred out.
Five year old Bradley Gibson was transferred in.
He'd been referred to Grantham Hospital by his GP because his
mother had taken him to the GP, just the normal doctor because
he had a really bad cough. But once the GP checked him
over, he diagnosed him with quite a bad chest infection.
And so they sent him to the hospital so that he could be put
on like antibiotics. He was put on an IV, and when he
arrived at the hospital, all these nurses remarked at how
positive and bright little Bradley was.
Like, even though he had this really bad chest infection, he
was in pain, but he was just so smiley and bubbly and happy.
So, yeah, Bradley was in good spirits.
He was fitted with his IV. He was taken to his hospital
room and he was getting on quite well.
However, in the middle of his first night at the hospital, he
complained to the nurses that his IV was hurting him.
And so nurse Beverly Allit went to his room to go and sort it
out, but while she was there, Bradley collapsed.
Apparently he just slumped forward in his bed, went
completely unconscious, stopped breathing and his heart just
stopped. So the team rushed in to come
and resuscitate Bradley and they were doing everything that they
possibly could, but nothing was really working.
And so they made the decision to up the doses to adult doses.
Bear in mind this is a 5 year old boy so this can be quite
dangerous, but when nothing else is working I suppose anything
beats losing him. They used the defibrillator on
him like 7 or 8 times which I don't think he's supposed to do
on a 5 year old, but like I said, anything beats losing him.
They were up in all his different medications and stuff.
And finally they resuscitated him.
He was breathing again. Because this attack had been so
sudden, literally came out of nowhere, Grantham Hospital
decided to do some tests on Bradley.
They took a blood sample and again they found those insanely
high insulin levels that the Nottingham hospital had found in
another child. But the frustrating part about
this is because Bradley's blood test had been done by Grantham
Hospital and Paul Crampton's blood test, the one before, had
been done by Nottingham Hospital.
They didn't connect the no one was noticing that there was a
pattern here with these children falling suddenly I'll having
these respiratory attacks and having super high insulin
levels. Like no one noticed that because
it was two different teams that figured that out and they didn't
communicate it. Later that same evening, 5 year
old Bradley Gibson went into cardiac arrest again a second
time and history repeated itself.
Beverly Allit sounded the alarm, rushed to his bedside and helped
to resuscitate him again, and Bradley was fine.
And now that Bradley had two attacks, Grantham Hospital just
felt like they couldn't deal with this case, just like they
couldn't deal with a lot of the cases that they were having
lately. And so they transferred Bradley
to Nottingham Hospital, where he recovered pretty much instantly
and never had another cardiac arrest.
Fancy that. Although sadly, he was left with
long lasting issues from these attacks.
He couldn't use his legs for a long, long time, and he lost
control of his bladder for a number of years as well.
Fortunately, after years of physiotherapy, Bradley managed
managed to gain all of this back.
He could use his legs again, he got control of his bladder, but
that didn't stop the kids at school bullying him for all of
this. He had a really hard time
because of all of these physical issues that he was left with and
he even had nightmares for a long time.
But he was one of the luckier patients to come off of the
children's ward at Grantham Hospital.
The next suspicious case that they had was on March 22nd.
And let me just put this into perspective for you.
Beverly Allen has only been working there for one month at
this point and they've had this many suspicious cases.
Just every single week there were new children having these
random respiratory attacks, unexplained cardiac arrests, and
none of this had ever really happened before until Beverly
Allit joined. But anyway, on March 22nd, 2
year old Yit Kung Chan was admitted to the hospital after
he fell and fractured his skull. He was put under the care of
nurse Beverly Allit and literally within a few hours of
him arriving at the hospital, he stopped breathing and went blue
completely out of nowhere, just like all of these other
children. And so nurses rushed to his
bedside, gave him oxygen and he responded well to that.
He actually came around again, but due to the severity of what
he already had, a fractured skull.
That's why he was in hospital in the 1st place.
Grantham Hospital thought well, fractured skull plus cardiac
arrest out of nowhere, like they could not deal with a case
that's severe. And so they transferred Yitkung
Chan to Nottingham Hospital and there he completely recovered,
never had another the respiratory attack or cardiac
arrest, just like Paul Crampton, just like Bradley Gibson, just
like a lot of the children that they transfer hospitals away
from Grantham. Nottingham Hospital just
attributed this random cardiac arrest to his skull fracture.
I don't know what the correlation is, but then again,
I'm not a doctor. They just kind of thought, oh,
that must be the reason and no one ever really talked about it
again. I don't know how they keep
blaming these cardiac arrest, these random respiratory attacks
on something different every single time.
Like, oh, maybe it's the chest infection or maybe it's the
skull fracture or maybe it's this.
Maybe it's that. It's like every time these
children would have a severe cardiac arrest or respiratory
attack, they would just blame it on something quite irrelevant,
like every single time. And it's like, why is no one
noticing this pattern? Becky and Katie Phillips were
the next two children to fall I'll at Grantham Hospital.
They were two twins and they were born very premature.
So they were tiny, tiny, tiny. And at the point where they were
admitted to the hospital, they were just 9 weeks old.
The first one of the twins to be admitted to the hospital was
Becky. She had caught quite a severe
stomach bug. She was vomiting, she had
diarrhea. And in a nine week old premature
baby, this can be so, so dangerous.
And so they admitted her to the hospital so that she could have
very close care and a close eye on her at all times.
And she was responding really well to the treatment.
She was getting her fluids up. She'd stopped vomiting, vomiting
and it looked like she was on the mend.
However, just a couple of days in, nurse Beverly Allit raised
the alarm that Becky had stopped breathing.
She was resuscitated successfully.
And just like all those other children that were successfully
resuscitated, she recovered so fast.
It's like these kids bounced back within a few hours, which
is not normal when you've got a severe cardiac arrest,
especially in a nine week old baby.
Yeah, it was almost unbelievable how well she recovered.
And so within a few days of this cardiac arrest, Becky was
discharged from the hospital. But on the first night in her
own home, Becky took a turn for the worst and she started having
convulsions and she was in so much pain, bless her, she was
sobbing a little, eyes out. And her parents just did not
know what to do. So they called for an emergency
doctor to come to the house. And this doctor had no relation
to Grantham Hospital. It was an independent doctor.
They came and they assessed Becky and they told her parents
that it seemed she had colic, which is a term for when a new
newborn baby just cries and cries and cries for no reason.
Apparently this is quite a common thing with newborn babies
where they're perfectly healthy, they have nothing wrong with
them, but they just seem to cry and they never stop.
And usually it resolves itself within like a few weeks.
So the doctor advised her parents to just try and soothe
her, try and comfort her the best that they can and maybe
take her for a proper examination the following
morning because this was quite late at night when this doctor
came out. But the next morning, when the
parents woke up and when to go and check on their baby, she was
called to the touch. Becky Phillips had passed away
in her sleep. And as if this wasn't traumatic
enough to lose a child, to lose your baby, her parents were now
filled with fear that maybe their other daughter, Becky's
twin sister, Katie, what if she'd caught the same thing?
What if Becky had kind of passed this stomach bug onto her
sister? And what if they were going to
lose their other baby as well now?
So the parents rushed Katie to the hospital to be checked over
and cared for by professionals. And as soon as they got there,
they were greeted by Nurse Beverly Allit.
And they were just so comforted to see a friendly face, someone
that they knew, someone that they trusted on the children's
ward. So Nurse Beverly Allit took
Katie and whisked her away to her own hospital bed where she
hooked her up to all these monitors that could check on
her. But within just a few hours of
arriving at the hospital, Katie stopped breathing.
In the space of 24 hours this family had very suddenly and
tragically lost one of their babies and now their other
daughter seems to be falling ill in the exact same way.
I can't imagine how terrifying this must have been.
Katie was resuscitated successfully but then she
stopped breathing again and she was resuscitated again and at
this point Grantham were like Nope this case is too severe.
Transferred her to Nottingham hospital as always for urgent
care. As soon as Katie arrived at this
new hospital, they gave her a full examination and that was
when doctors found out that five of her ribs were broken.
How they had no idea how this could have happened.
Her parents had no idea either because it's not like she'd like
fallen or been dropped or anything like that.
They couldn't imagine how five of her ribs could have just
broken. But the doctors at Nottingham
Hospital attributed her lungs collapsing to these broken ribs.
It seemed to make these respiratory attacks make sense.
This is actually the only case in a while where the respiratory
attacks kind of made sense. So once again, no further
investigations were done. No one is realizing a pattern or
a correlation because they seem to be just blaming these cardiac
arrests on something, anything, everything, everything other
than bad care. At Grantham Hospital, Katie
recovered and survived her ordeal.
Although she was left with long lasting issues due to the oxygen
deprivation to her brain. She was actually left with
cerebral palsy and that is a lifelong disability.
I think a couple of the children in this case were left with
cerebral palsy. That is something that will
affect them for the rest of their lives.
But she was alive and that's all that matters.
Her parents were just over the moon that she could be saved and
they were so grateful for all of the hospital staff's help,
especially Nurse Beverly Allet that had cared for both of their
babies. Now.
In fact, the Phillips family was so grateful to Nurse Beverly
Allet that they actually asked her to be Katie's godmother and
she accepted she was Katie Phillips godmother.
After this case of Katie and Becky Phillips, there were four
more cases on the Grantham Children's Ward of Children's
Hearts just randomly stopping these random respiratory
attacks. And these next 4 cases don't
really have as much information on them and I'm not entirely
sure what order they happened in, but we've done our best.
I'll tell you what I know. Also before I carry on, I know
to me and you true crime fans, it seems insanely obvious that
something dodgy is going on here.
I keep saying it that the doctors weren't like spotting
these patterns or correlations, but bear in mind this case
actually took place before the Harold Shipman case.
If you're unaware of the Harold Shipman case, I've done a full
video on it. But he was a doctor that was
killing a lot of his patients and that hadn't been exposed
yet. So it wasn't in people's minds
that doctors could be doing this to their patients.
It was completely unheard of. Would never had a case like that
in the UK before until Harold Shipman and then until this one.
And besides Nurse Beverly allit seemed so dedicated to her job
that no one ever suspected that she was a bad person.
You know, she was volunteering to work outside of hours, unpaid
just to care for these children. To everyone around her, this
just seemed like a passion of hers that she just really wanted
to look after children. So anyway, as I was saying,
there were four more cases around this time and I'll run
through them quickly, one of which was Michael Davidson.
I couldn't find out how old Michael was but Beverly was part
time and caring for him. It was her and another doctor
that were looking after Michael and this other doctor had asked
nurse Beverly Allit to go and get a syringe, go and prepare a
syringe for Michael. So she brought this syringe back
to the Doctor Who administered it to Michael.
And literally within minutes his heart stopped so suddenly, so
randomly and luckily they could resuscitate him.
But they couldn't figure out why this had happened.
And everyone that was on the ward that day all agreed that
this was weird, but this wasn't natural, that something odd had
happened here. And they did want to look into
it. They did want to investigate.
But the only thing being, like I said, they were so understaffed
on this ward, they simply didn't have time to investigate why
this could have happened. They were just so busy with all
of these patients that no one had a spare hour to go and do
tests on this boy and figure out why this happened.
They had to be like running around, like looking after all
these children. So actually, they just concluded
that Michael must have been allergic to the medication or
something like that. He had an adverse reaction and
that must have been the explanation, but really, they
never actually found out an explanation.
Another child named Christopher Peasgood was admitted to the
children's ward with a chest infection, just like a lot of
children before him. And within a few hours of
arriving, he stopped breathing. He stopped breathing twice,
actually. He was resuscitated and then
stopped again, and then he was resuscitated again.
That's another pattern here as well.
These cardiac arrests are not just one singular thing.
A lot of these children are having repeated heated attacks.
But yeah, he was resuscitated for a second time, and he seemed
to bounce back fine. And after that, he never had
another attack. But there was something else
weird about this case. Some of the reports say that
there were signs that he'd been smothered yet that wasn't looked
into. What?
What do you actually mean? Signs that a child has been
smothered. But it wasn't looked into, I
believe because they were so understaffed and they didn't
have time to look into that. But how serious is that?
And they didn't look into it. But yeah, like I said, he never
had another attack after those two.
And he was able to leave the hospital relatively recovered.
The next child was named Christopher King.
And very similarly to Becky Phillips, he had caught this
stomach bug. He was vomiting, diarrhea.
It was really, really severe. And so he was admitted to the
hospital to just try and get his fluids up.
He was left under the care of Nurse Beverly Alice for a couple
of hours just while his parents were out speaking to the other
doctors. And when they returned to his
bedside, Christopher was very unwell.
Just minutes later, he actually stopped breathing completely and
turned blue. But Nurse Beverly Alec was on
the case. She rushed to his bedside,
managed to resuscitate him, managed to get him pretty much
fully recovered. And after that, Christopher King
was completely fine. He never suffered anything like
that ever again. Doctors just kind of put it down
to severe dehydration due to his stomach bug, and they moved on.
And the last of these four cases was a young boy named Patrick
Elstone, who also stopped breathing on the children's ward
of Grantham Hospital. And it was Beverly Allet that
actually noticed that he'd stopped breathing and turned
blue because he was hooked up to a load of monitors.
But they didn't go off when he stopped breathing for some
reason. If it hadn't have been for
Beverly Allet noticing that this boy had stopped breathing and
gone blue, he would have lost his life.
And so when she rushed to his bed bedside and helped to
resuscitate him, his parents were so grateful to her.
She had saved their boy's life. But the next child on the
Grantham Children's ward sadly wouldn't be so lucky. 15 month
old Claire Peck was admitted to the children's ward in late
April for severe asthma. In fact, she'd had this severe
asthma all her life and so she'd been in and out of the
children's ward all her life. So the staff knew her quite
well, but this was the first time she'd been there while
Nurse Beverly Allit had been working.
On April 22nd, doctors pulled Claire's parents into an office
just to discuss her treatment plan, and they left Claire in
the care of Nurse Beverly Allit. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Claire
went into cardiac arrest. She turned blue.
And Beverly Allit actually managed to resuscitate her all
by herself. She helped this baby recover.
And her parents were, of course, so relieved but also so worried
that, like, where had that come from?
Now they were were even more scared for their daughter and so
once again the doctors pulled her parents aside into this
office to discuss how and why this might have happened.
But within 90 seconds of her parents leaving Claire's
bedside, she had collapsed again and stopped breathing again.
Beverly tried to resuscitate Claire again but she couldn't do
it and so she raised the alarm for further help.
They rushed to the bedside and they were doing everything that
they could, but Claire was just far too weak and they just
couldn't bring her around. And it was then when Claire
Peck's heart stopped and she was pronounced dead.
She passed away with her parents at her bedside.
And the nurses remember this being one of the saddest days
that they had ever worked. Literally every nurse, every
doctor on that ward was sobbing because they all knew Claire
quite well at this point. Like I said, she was always in
the hospital for her asthma and she had just the most gorgeous
little smiling bright face and all the staff loved her.
It was like they were all losing a family member.
Claire's body was sent off for an autopsy so that they could
figure out how this happened, but the coroner just ruled her
death as natural causes and a lot of people were satisfied
with that, but not everyone. There was a pediatric consultant
at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital named Doctor Porter and
he was alarmed at the amount of just random cardiac arrest and
respiratory attacks that had been happening over the last
like 2 months in that hospital. He was actually so concerned
that he opened a formal inquiry thinking that something was
going on here. Now when I say he thought
something was going on, he never for one second thought that
someone was intentionally. Hurting these children.
He just thought that some like protocols needed changing.
Something was going wrong with how the nurses were trying to
deal with these children, if that makes sense.
Like he didn't think it was quite as sinister as what it
was, but he thought that some people might not be doing their
jobs properly. And it was, it was getting quite
devastating at this point. So something needed to be done.
So he compiled a list of the 13 children that we've spoken about
in this case because they were all very, very similar, just
random cardiac arrests, respiratory attacks out of
nowhere. They'd stop breathing, their
heart would stop, they'd turn blue.
It was all the same. And he went and contacted the
authorities, the police, and he basically said, look, I've got
no proof of anything, but I just know that something is not right
here. Something is going on, and I
need you to look into this. And police agreed that something
didn't seem quite right with those figures and all of the
cases that this doctor had told them.
And so on. May 3rd, 1991, the doctors went
down to Grantham and Kesteven Hospital to speak with Doctor
Porter and one of his colleagues.
And in this meeting there was another man invited.
So there were the doctors from Grantham Hospital, but also a
professor named Doctor Hull who was also a medical professional,
but he wasn't linked to Grantham Hospital in any way.
They needed like a completely separate perspective, you know.
And after this meeting, Doctor Hull took all of this
information, all of this evidence that the hospital had
given him, and he wrote up a report and he mainly focused
this report on a few of the more concerning cases or the cases
that he felt were the most concerning.
The main one being the case of Paul Crampton, one of the
surviving children. He he was the one where they
found those insanely high insulin levels in his blood and
they put it down to an insulin OMA, but they actually never had
any evidence that there was even an insulin OMA there.
And Professor Hull basically said if this was down to an
insulin OMA, it would be a recurring rearing issue.
This insulinoma would keep coming back.
But like I said, Paul Crampton never had any issues like this
ever again. So Professor Hull was basically
saying it can't be an insulinoma.
So how were his levels that high?
That's not natural. Something must have happened to
get his levels that high. That was only one of the things
that Professor Hull wrote about in this report.
But there were so many other concerning, suspicious things
that he'd spotted throughout these cases.
And when he'd finished this report, he took it back to
Grantham and cause Stephen and showed Doctor Porter.
And they just could not believe that all of this evidence had
been like right in front of their eyes the whole time.
So they took these reports straight to the police and they
were like, look, look at everything that we've found.
Isn't this suspicious? Police thought that these
doctors were kind of wasting their time.
They didn't take this as seriously as the doctors were
taking it because police thought that this was more of a case of
bad staffing. Like, they thought that the
nurses and the doctors at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital
were not doing a good enough job.
And that was what was leading to all of these unexpected child
deaths, cardiac arrests, respiratory attacks, 12 of them
in two months. The police kind of just told
these doctors that maybe they should look into training their
staff better instead of accusing them of like, wrongdoing and
intentionally harming these children.
But the police did open a formal inquiry because, I mean, this is
very serious and they needed to. In fact, there was one man on
the police force, Superintendent Stuart Clifton, and he saw this
case for what it was. He saw it exactly how the
doctors were. This was so suspicious.
Something was going on. And Superintendent Stuart
Clifton got super passionate about this case, even though all
of his colleagues were telling him is wasting his time and this
investigation is going to lead to nowhere.
He's just wasting police funds. But Stuart Clifton was like,
maybe, but what is if something is going on and we ignore it
because it would waste police time or waste funds?
What if something is going on and they're not catching it and
children just keep dying and having their lives ruined from
these cardiac arrests, these respiratory attacks?
He said he wouldn't be able to live with himself if something
was going on. And they'd all just stood by and
done nothing. So he didn't care if he was
wasting his time. He was going to put his all into
this investigation. And actually, Superintendent
Stuart Clifton risked losing his job over this because the other
police officers were so against him spending time and money on
this. And they put in so many
complaints about him that he feared that if he did do this
investigation and it was all a misunderstanding and it was
actually, you know, unexplained medical phenomenons, then he
could lose his job over that. But he was willing to take that
chance because he told everyone that he just had a gut feeling
that something wasn't right. And he needed to trust that, he
needed to follow that because children were losing their lives
here. So immediately police started
working inside the hospital. There was constant police
presence on the children ward at Grantham Hospital.
And this made everyone quite uneasy.
The staff, the children, their parents.
In fact a lot of the parents of the children in that ward
actually threatened to take their children elsewhere because
they didn't like the police presence.
I mean, it was only Superintendent Stuart Clifton
and A a couple of other colleagues, but it, it kind of
made the environment really tense.
As to be expected, police presence will make a situation
quite tense. But I mean, no one was really
looking at the bigger picture. Maybe it's worth it.
It is worth it. So police started their
investigation by interviewing every single person that worked
on the children's ward at Grantham Hospital.
And that's not just doctors and nurses, that's everyone.
The cleaners, the admin staff, the student nurses, literally
everyone, anyone and everyone that steps foot on that ward is
getting questioned. Beverly Allit was actually one
of the first to be questioned because it was all the doctors
and nurses that were first. And police remembered her just
being very bright and bubbly and she seemed very passionate about
her job. She seemed to really care about
the children and that was about it really.
And when you think about her past, Beverly Allen had spent
her whole entire life lying to everyone.
And at this point, now that she's in her 20s, she's good at
it. Like she can lie to anyone and
get away with anything. I don't think she was that
passionate about this job, but police left that interview
thinking, wow, this woman is a St.
She she loves her job. She loves caring for children.
I don't think she did. She just played that role so
well and everyone believed her. So as some of the police
officers were conducting these interviews, there were other
officers that were trying to gather physical evidence, which
as I'm sure you can imagine, in a case like this, it's very hard
to find any physical evidence. Luckily for police though,
Grantham Hospitals still had a few frozen blood samples from 9
of the children that were involved in this inquiry, which
they actually shouldn't have had.
That's kind of naughty. They were supposed to get rid of
those blood samples every every now and again, they're supposed
to just clear out the blood samples.
But because the ward was so understaffed, they didn't have
enough people for the amount of jobs that they had.
They just weren't getting around to a lot of the jobs.
So to be fair, sometimes it helps to be a bit unorganized.
And now police had physical evidence when they weren't
expecting to get any actually. So they sent all of these
samples off to a hospital in Surrey.
They wanted to send them quite far away from Grantham or
Nottingham because they didn't want to risk, I don't know, They
just wanted a complete different perspective of a hospital that
is in no way connected or linked to Grantham or Nottingham or any
in the area. So yeah, all these samples were
sent to Surrey. And actually one of these nine
samples belonged to Paul Crampton.
You remember the boy that had those insanely high insulin
levels? He supposedly had an insulin
OMA, but did he really? This was the case that Professor
Hull was the most concerned about because when Paul Crampton
went to Nottingham Hospital, his blood tests revealed that his
insulin level was at 500 and the average for a boy his age is
between 10 and 15500. And now they had a blood sample
of Paul Crampton's from when he was in Grantham Hospital that
they could test against the Nottingham Hospital blood
sample. So the hospital in Surrey has
it, they analyze it, and they send those results back to the
police. And you're not going to believe
this. The insulin levels in Paul
Crampton's blood while he was in Grantham Hospital were at
47,000. Let me remind you, the average
for a boy's age, 10 to 1547 thousand, that's actually the
second highest insulin level ever recorded and this is a 5
year old boy. The doctors at Nottingham
Hospital had thought that that 500 insulin level reading was an
anomaly and that it was false. It was a false reading.
But now that they had this one from Grantham to compare it to
her, they knew that it wasn't false and that this boy had
insanely unnaturally high insulin levels.
So police actually wanted to figure out how Paul Crampton's
insulin levels had gone from 47,000 at Grantham Hospital to
500 at Nottingham the very next day.
How would that been such a drastic drop in less than 24
hours? So police looked into this and
they actually found that the equipment used at Nottingham
Hospital to test his blood sample only went up to 500.
So that meant that his insulin level could have been over 500,
but this machine can't, can't say that.
All it can say is 500. So it's more than likely that
Paul Crampton's levels would have still been in the 10s of
thousands when he was at Nottingham Hospital, but that
machine just had no way of reading that high.
So now police are questioning how and why this could have
happened. This is a 5 year old boy with
the second highest insulin level ever recorded.
Something's not right, something is not right.
Police feared that someone in that hospital, one of the staff
members, could have been intentionally overdosing these
children with insulin, trying to give them an insulin overdose.
And so they started researching the concept of insulin overdose
just as a thing. They just started researching it
online and that was when they stumbled across a medical report
that detailed 2 separate cases of insulin overdose that had
happened as a result of Munchausen by proxy.
And this is essentially what Beverly Allit had, you know,
Munchausen syndrome. It's where you make yourself ill
or hurt yourself for sympathy or attention.
Now, the by proxy bit means that you're not doing that to
yourself, you're doing that to someone else.
You're hurting or harming someone else for the that
attention or sympathy. It's like if you've ever heard
the case of Dee Dee Blanchard before.
I feel like a lot of people have.
If you've ever watched the ACT was that on Hulu?
Very similar thing there. Or if you've ever seen it, you
know the kid Eddie, his mum had Munchausen syndrome by proxy and
she like gave him all these medications to make him I'll
even though he wasn't ill. But anyway, I'm getting off
track there talking about it back to the medical report.
Both of these cases that were detailed in the medical report
of insulin over dose were actually from mothers
intentionally injecting their daughters with insulin, trying
to make them overdose on it. And for these mothers, it was
all about attention and sympathy, sometimes even
financial gain. And police read this report and
they feared that someone at the Grantham Hospital was doing
this, this exact thing to their patients.
So with this in mind, police went back to the Grantham
Hospital and they started asking the staff about their drug
protocols. You know, where do they store
the insulin? How is it administered?
They wanted to know everything about how it's done.
But the police were informed that all of their insulin was
kept in this one big fridge that had a big lock on it.
However, the key for that lock had been missing for months.
And so the fridge had just remained unlocked for months.
And the last person that was known to have that key to the
fridge, I feel like you've already guessed it.
It was Nurse Beverly Allit. She was the last person recorded
to have that key. She claimed that at the end of
her shift when she had the key, she said she handed it over to
the nurse on the next shift after her.
However, that next nurse said now she never handed me
anything. She never gave me anything.
So Nurse Beverly Alley was the last person to ever have that.
I don't know why they didn't look into that at the hospital.
Probably the understaffing issue.
Again, they don't have time to investigate anything, I suppose,
at this hospital, which is very dangerous when such suspicious
things are happening left, right and centre.
I feel like maybe it's time to hire more people.
So as soon as police heard this, that Beverly Alley had that key,
probably. I mean, there's no evidence to
say that she did, But like, come on.
And the insulin fridge had just stayed open and accessible to
anyone at any time for the last two months.
This was just consolidating their theory more and more that
maybe Beverly was intentionally overdosing these children.
So at this point, police got in touch with Surrey Hospital who
still had all the samples, they were still doing the test and
they were like, can you get a shift on with this?
Like can you do this a bit quicker?
Because it's looking really scary on our end.
And so Surrey did all the tests pretty much the same day, sent
the results back to the police. And what do you know, every
single one of those samples from Grantham Hospital had high, high
insulin levels. Every single one of these
children that had, you know, unexpected cardiac arrests or
respiratory attacks, they all had something in common.
These insanely high insulin levels.
In fact, actually not all of them were insulin levels, but
all of these children had insanely high levels of
something. Most often it was insulin, but
some of the others were like other injectable drugs.
Becky Phillips, you know the nine week old premature baby
that died, her blood sample read 9000 units of insulin, a nine
week old premature baby as well. Whereas the most recent death of
baby Claire Peck, her blood sample came back and read an
insanely high level of a drug named lignacaine, which is a
cardiac drug that is never given to children and it was given to
a 15 month old baby. And as soon as police saw all of
this evidence come back from Surrey, they knew that they were
right that someone in that hospital had to be intentionally
injecting these children, trying to make them overdose, trying to
make them I'll even trying to kill them.
So with all of this information, police started to compare all
the data that they had for all these different 13 children, all
these 13 cases, and they realized that all of them had
one thing in common. And that was the that nurse
Beverly Allet was working on the day that these children all had
their attacks. In fact, she'd only started
working there at the children's ward two days before the first
attack. So she arrives 2 days later, all
these children start falling suddenly and severely.
I'll, their heart's stopping, they're stopping breathing,
they're turning blue as soon as Beverly Allet arrives.
And with that, she was the prime suspect in this case, and police
knew they needed to act quickly in order to save any other
children on that ward. So that same day, security
cameras were installed all over the children's ward.
All of the parents of all of these 13 cases, they were all
interviewed and mainly asked about Beverly Allit actually,
because they wanted to see how she'd been interacting with
people. Police went and checked all of
the children's records again, a double check actually, because I
think they'd checked them before.
But this time, they found that Paul Crampton's records were
were missing, and that was the main case that police and
Professor Hull were the most concerned about.
So could it be that someone had stolen these records or
destroyed them or tried to get rid of them somehow?
Physical evidence was really, really hard to come by in this
case, like we've said. I mean, especially because this
is a hospital as well, one of the most sanitized places on
earth. So police really had to rely
more on, like, circumstantial evidence and witness testimony
and interviews and things like that.
And now that they'd identified their prime suspect, Beverly
Allit, they could come at this from another angle.
And they started to look into Beverly as a person to see if
there were any clues in her life, you know, that could link
to this case at all. And that was when they found
that she had Munchausen syndrome.
And as soon as police found that out, they just knew they had the
right person. They knew it.
She was doing the same thing that she'd always done to
herself for years and years and years.
But when that stopped getting her attention, she'd start doing
it to other people. She was harming other people.
Now it seemed that her Munchausen syndrome had
developed into Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
So on May 21st, 1991, police turned up at Beverly Allen's
house at 7:00 AM to arrest her, Although they had to be careful
what they actually arrested her for because like I said, they
really didn't have like, any evidence at this point.
I mean, they had evidence that the children were not dying
naturally, but they didn't have any evidence that Beverly
herself was the one doing it. So they actually had to arrest
her for stealing the insulin fridge key and the attempted
murder of Paul Crampton. They were the only things that
they actually had evidence for, but they managed to arrest her
and they took her to the police station for an interview.
But to be honest, she was just so chill about the whole thing.
Like not like in a oh, I don't care kind of way, but more in AI
don't know. She just wasn't anxious.
She wasn't worried. She was more playing this caring
nurse role as she always had. She was acting like she wanted
to do this interview to help the police solve this case.
You know, she was still telling them how passionate she was
about her job and how much she loved it and how much she loved
caring for people and she loved her patients and all that kind
of stuff. And this whole situation was
just really odd, no matter what way you looked at it.
Because if she was guilty and she was trying to kill all of
these children, she had been doing this on purpose, then she
was a scarily convincing liar. She was good at lying.
But alternatively, if she was innocent and she wasn't lying
and she was just this great nurse, then why didn't she care
more about being accused of murdering her patients that she
so loved? Apparently, according to her, I
don't know. I think if I was a nurse and I
was so passionate about my job and someone accused me of
intentionally harming my patients, I would be so
offended, so offended. But she didn't seem bothered
that she was being accused of this.
So as Beverly was being interviewed at the police
station, other police officers were sent to her house to
perform a full search. And they found some damning
evidence in her house. They found Paul Crampton's
missing records that seem to have been stolen from the
hospital in Beverly's home, and right next to them, a syringe.
Was she keeping these things as mementos of what she'd done to
that poor 5 year old boy? So police decided that the next
thing they should do is bring in a psychiatrist to assess Beverly
Allit in the police station, because obviously their main
theory involved her having a very serious mental illness.
So they needed to get like a diagnosis.
They needed confirmation that she had Munchausen syndrome or
Munchausen syndrome by proxy. So the psychiatrist came in and
spoke with Beverly and immediately, yeah, she had
Munchausen's and they pinpointed the.
Development of her Munchausen syndrome to be right when she
got rejected from grammar school, do you remember her
parents really wanted her to go to this prestigious school and
her sister had gotten into that school, but Beverly couldn't.
She didn't pass the test to get in.
She felt inferior to her intelligent older sister and
it's believed that from that point on she felt she needed to
do other things to get her parents attention.
And that was when she developed Munchausen's and started harming
herself to try and get sympathy from her parents.
And it did work at first, we know it did.
People gave her sympathy for putting random bandages on and
plasters. But after a while that didn't
work. So she had to up the levels.
And at that point she was getting like her appendix taken
out. She was picking at her wounds,
trying to infect her wounds like it got to another level.
But then that stopped working as well.
The psychiatrist believed that her Munchausen syndrome turned
into Munchausen syndrome by proxy around the time that she
started actually working at the hospital.
Because like I said, she had like 160 sick days in a year and
the hospital were like, you can't do that.
You can't do that in a job. We don't want you to work at the
hospital if you're going to be having that much time off.
And all of a sudden her munch houses was affecting her life
and actually being off work so much was having the adverse
effect to what she really wanted.
She wanted attention. She wanted people to love her
and and empathize with her and, you know, care for her, but
people were starting to not like her, her now because she's
having too much time off work. So all of a sudden this isn't
working. She needs to figure out a new
way to get attention and sympathy.
And that was when she realized that she could intentionally
harm her patients. And then as nurse Beverly Allit,
she could swoop in and save them and save the day and save their
lives and be a hero. Their parents would love her.
Everyone on the ward would love her.
She would finally get that attention that she wanted, all
she needed to do to make sure that she was around when these
children fell ill so that she could be the one to treat them.
And the way that she did that was by making them ill herself.
So it wasn't exactly sympathy that she was doing it for
anymore. It was more like praise, but
that was good enough, that worked.
That was a good enough substitute for her.
And it's just sickening that this plan actually worked.
Time and time again, it worked. And especially all the case of
Katie and Becky Phillips, those premature twins, That case just
absolutely boils my blood. Beverly Allit murdered one of
those babies and severely disabled another within the
space of a few days. And both times those poor girls
parents praised Beverly Allit, thanked her for for helping
their daughters. And actually they adored her so
much for all that she'd done for their daughters that they made
her Katie's godmother. My heart just absolutely breaks
for the Phillips family. Imagine finding out that you had
made your daughter's murderer and your other daughter's
attempted murderer a part of your family out of the good of
your heart. I think I got a little bit off
track there, but we were talking about the psychiatrist
evaluation of her, and this psychiatrist actually noted on
file that Beverly had a lot of symptoms that were in line with
a personality disorder. Now, I don't think they actually
named any specific personality disorder and I don't know if she
was actually diagnosed with one, but they basically said that it
was probably this personality disorder or these symptoms that
are in line with a personality disorder that allowed her to do
this for so long because she just didn't really realize the
gravity of the situation. Her Munchausen's and this
personality disorder, once they were together, that's what led
to this absolute disaster because people can have
Munchausen's and people can have personality disorders and you
know, never do anything like this.
But the psychiatrist believe that both of these things
together is what led to this. So very early on in this
investigation, it was very clear to police that they weren't
going to get any confessions out of Beverly.
She was she wasn't going to admit to anything.
They knew that they needed other evidence.
But like I said, physical evidence is just so hard to get
in a case like this. And actually, they were running
out of time because like I said, they'd arrested Beverly on a
couple of charges, but they're only actually allowed to keep
her in the police station for what is it like 72 hours, 3
days? So it was coming to the end of
that. And if they can't charge her
with anything at the end of 72 hours, they have to let her go.
That's just the rules. And actually, that time came and
police just didn't have the physical evidence to be able to
charge her with anything, and they had to let her go.
So Beverly Alley left the police station.
And by the time she got home, her house was swarming with
journalists and photographers, people wanting to see this woman
because everyone kind of knew that this case was going on.
This case had become huge in the public eye over the last few
days. And actually, the day that
Beverly left the police station, Grantham and Kesteven Hospital
put out a statement saying that she'd been put on leave pending
the results of this investigation.
So she'd been suspended from her job and this actually sparked a
lot of interesting responses. A lot of people felt that this
was the right thing to do, this was the appropriate thing to do
in a situation like this. But a lot of people also didn't.
Most of those people actually being Beverly's victim's parents
who came forward in her defence saying, oh, she must have been
framed, she's innocent, someone must be framing her like they
were just convinced. The parents didn't doubt that
their children were attacked or harmed or even murdered by a
member of staff at that hospital.
And they were still heartbroken, devastated, angry that someone
had done that to their child. But they didn't think it was
Beverly. They thought that another member
of staff on that ward had been doing this to the children.
And then they tried to frame Beverly for it.
To be honest, a lot of them thought that it was the police's
fault and that they knew that someone on that ward was killing
children and they couldn't figure out who it was.
And so they just arrested Beverly so that they could say
that they had someone for it. You know what I mean?
One family actually went so far as to hire a private
investigator because they believed Beverly was innocent.
They hired this investigator to look into the police
investigation of Beverly and try and figure out if anything was
like faked or staged or if Beverly was framed.
And if that doesn't show how much of A sickeningly good liar
and manipulator Beverly Allit was, she'd fooled the whole
entire world, including the parents of her murder victims.
So anyway, like I said, Beverly Alley is released from the
police station and she goes back to her house that is absolutely
swarming with press, so much so that she can't live there.
She can't stay in that house. And so she moved in with her
friend named Tracy Jobson. Tracy actually lived with her
mother, Eileen, and her brother Jonathan.
So Beverly's moving into like, this family home.
And of course, she's not working at this point.
And as soon as she stopped working at that hospital, the
cardiac arrest just stopped. But weird goings on seem to
follow Beverly Allen wherever she goes.
If she's at the hospital, they're at the hospital.
But when she's not there anymore, they follow her to her
friend's house. And weird things started
happening at Tracy's house, now mainly involving her brother,
Jonathan. One day, Jonathan walked into
his bedroom and found that there'd been bleach poured all
over his bed, and no one admitted to it.
And there was another incident actually, with the family dog
where they came home one day and they found this poor dog rolling
around uncontrollably. It was frothing at the mouth.
They had to race it to the vet. The vet determined that the dog
must have ingested a large amount of pills, and they knew
exactly what kind of pill as well.
It was a pill that had been prescribed to Eileen that she
kept on the top shelf in the bathroom, somewhere the dog
could have never gotten to on its own.
Eileen was immediately suspicious of Beverly Allit
because they all knew why she was being looked into by the
police. They all knew that she had
Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
They knew the kind of shit that she got up to.
And so Eileen got home from the vet that day and she pulled her
daughter and her son into a room, Tracy and Jonathan.
And she was like, look, please tell me that neither of you guys
left my pills out on the side. Both of them said, no, obviously
not. Why would we get your pills from
the top drawer and just leave them out on the side for the dog
to have? This had never happened before,
ever. And that left only one other
person in that house that could have done this.
And so Eileen went and confronted Beverly Allit and she
gave the most insane cover story you have ever heard.
You're going to love this. Beverly said that she had seen a
poltergeist in the house, an evil spirit moving things
around, picking things up, opening cupboards and just
causing general havoc in the house.
And so she said, oh, it must have been, it must have been the
poltergeist that got your medication out, fed it to the
dog. And the family just could not
believe their ears as Beverly was saying this.
I mean, like, what do you say to that?
Because it's obviously a lie. How do I don't even know how
they would have reacted to that. But anyway, in the following
days, some more weird little things kept happening around the
house until Jonathan was hospitalized.
The whole family and Beverly Alley had all been out at a
local market that day. They'd just been walking around,
shopping, whatever. And Jonathan had kept
complaining all day that he didn't feel well, he wasn't
feeling good. And then all of a sudden he
collapsed in the middle of the street and they had to phone an
ambulance and rush him to hospital.
So doctors checked to him over, they examined him.
They did loads of tests and swabs and samples, and they
determined that he was having a hypoglycemic attack.
His insulin levels were insanely high.
And it turned out that right before they'd all left for the
market that day, Beverly and Jonathan had been home alone.
And Beverly had offered to make Jonathan a drink, and he
accepted. So she brought him this like
blackcurrant squash, like the dilute juice, and Jonathan drank
it all. And he remembered thinking at
the time that it tasted weird, but he drank it anyway.
And no wonder it tasted weird because Beverly Allit had
poisoned it with insulin. And as soon as the family found
this out, Eileen was on the phone to the police telling them
that she had struck again. And Beverly had actually shot
herself in the foot here because the fact that she had acted the
exact same in a different environment, the fact that these
insulin poisonings seem to follow her around was enough
evidence for police to arrest her and have evidence that she'd
done all of the insulin poisonings.
This pretty much proved that it couldn't have been anyone else
on the children's ward poisoning the kids and then framing
Beverly Allit for it because she was still doing it wherever she
was. So in November of 1991,
literally the same year that she started her job at that
hospital, Beverly Allit was charged with four counts of
murder, 8 counts of attempted murder, and one count of GBH
grievous bodily harm. So now she was brought into the
police station and interviewed again, but but this time, she
was completely different. It was like she just dropped
that persona that she was putting on.
Before that, she was a caring, loving, passionate nurse.
And now she was just cold, emotionless.
Now she was like, oh, I don't care about this.
In Beverly's first court appearance, she plead not
guilty. And so a trial was set for 15
months time after that. And through that 15 months, as
they awaited for the trial, Beverly's mental health just
seemed to get worse and worse and worse.
She actually developed anorexia and lost 70 lbs, which is 31
kilograms. And she was in a really bad way,
so much so that the trial actually had to be postponed
like further than 15 months so that they could get her physical
health back on track before they went ahead with it.
Finally, in 1993, Beverly Allett's trial began.
And if this isn't the most Beverly Allett thing you've ever
heard, she actually only attended like half of her trial
because she was ill for half of it.
She was throwing sickies on her own murder trial, just like she
had everything else in her whole entire life.
The trial was two months long in total, and of that two months,
Beverly Allet attended 16 days of her own trial.
The prosecution presented all of the evidence that we've already
talked about throughout these two videos, but they also
brought up some very interesting points.
Remember how in the case of Katie Phillips, the six week old
premature baby, they found that six of her ribs, her tiny little
ribs were broken and that was completely unexplained.
Her parents had no idea how her ribs could be broken.
And also there was the case of Christopher Peasgood where there
were signs that he'd been smothered and that was never
looked into. It seemed that Beverly was doing
more than just injecting these kids with insulin and trying to
make them overdose. She was abusing them as well.
It seemed that she just enjoyed harming these innocent children.
She was cold and calculated and evil.
She wanted to see these children, these babies in pain.
And the most horrifying part of all of this is that persona that
she would put on for the victim's parents, as if she
hadn't just been breaking six of their child's ribs in a
different room. She would come out and she would
be that amazing, bright, smiley, comforting nurse that they all
thought she was, so much so that they would make her the
godmother of the child whose ribs she just broke.
And also remember, there's been a few points throughout this
case where these children would stop breathing, but the monitors
wouldn't go off. They wouldn't alert that the
child had stopped breathing. And I feel like you probably
already know why. It's because Beverly Allit would
switch off those monitors so that, you know, the children
wouldn't be saved. It was also found that when
these kids would be given oxygen, you know, when they're
being resuscitated by the rest of the team, Beverly would
secretly pinch the oxygen tubes to stop the flow of oxygen to
the children. And actually, it wasn't just
while the kids were being resuscitated because remember, a
lot of the kids on the children's ward were there for
things like chest infections and asthma.
They just needed oxygen in general.
A lot of them were just constantly hooked up and she
would just go in there rooms and pinch the oxygen tubes so that
these kids wouldn't be getting the air.
Oh my God, she knew what she was doing at every point here.
She was so calculated and I just can't believe the front that she
would put on for everyone all the time.
Even the police, when they first interviewed her, they thought
she was an amazing nurse. Everyone did.
One rather interesting thing that was brought up in court,
and I want to give a trigger warning for the anorexia stuff
here because I feel like this could upset some people.
So maybe skip forward a little bit if that might affect you.
But the psychiatrist suggested in court that maybe Beverly had
intentionally developed anorexia as a manifestation of her
Munchausen syndrome because she wasn't getting attention from
anything anymore. No one was giving her attention
for any anything. And that was kind of the only
thing that she was able to control all her life is her
health and how other people responded to it.
That was the only way she knew to get attention.
When she craved it was by hurting herself.
And so this psychiatrist said that maybe she did this
intentionally, but I do just want to clarify that anorexia is
a mental illness. People don't just choose to
develop that intentionally, which is why I felt the trigger
warning was necessary because this is a very unique, um, case
here. She was genuinely really
physically and mentally unwell with her anorexia.
That's not up for debate. She was struggling with it,
however the psychiatrist was suggesting how it might have
possibly come about in the 1st place.
The psychiatrist actually ended his statement in court by saying
that Beverly Allit was so severely mentally ill that he
didn't think that she could ever be cured and she would be a
danger to everyone that she would come in contact with for
the rest of her life. At the end of her trial, Beverly
Allit was found guilty on all counts.
In the space of just 59 days, 22 year old Beverly Allit had
murdered four children and attempted to murder another 9.
For that, she was given 13 life sentences and she's actually
been placed on a list of criminals that will never be
released from prison for public safety reasons.
At the time, Beverly Allit's sentence was actually the
strictest sentence ever given to a woman in the UK, and it's
actually only been beaten by two women since that, Rose West and
Joanna Dennehy. Due to her mental illness,
Beverly Allit was actually detained under the Mental Health
Act and she was sent to Rampton Secure Hospital instead of a
prison. And Rampton Hospital is very
similar to Broadmoor. You've heard me talk about
Broadmoor so many times on this channel.
A very secure like Max security psychiatric hospital for the
criminally insane. They're filled with like some of
the worst criminals in the whole entire country.
We're talking murderers, serial killers, rapists.
All the worst are the worst. Some notorious patients of
Rampton Secure hospital include Ian Huntley, the man that
murdered Holly and Jessica the sower murders.
There was Steven Griffiths, the crossbow cannibal.
We've covered that case on this channel before as well.
A guy called Peter Bryan who was a cannibal serial killer and
also the guy that tried to kidnap Prince Anne, what was his
name? Ian Ball.
Did I say Prince Anne?
Princess Anne? So anyway, Beverly Allit was
sent to Rampton Secure Hospital and just because she was in
there doesn't mean the Munchausen syndrome just turns
off. She was still doing stuff in
there, like pouring boiling water on herself and stuff and
Oh my God, OK, one of the worst things she did.
Squeamish warning here just in case she actually ground up
loads of broken glass, like ground it right into a powder
and then put that in a syringe. Don't know how she got hold of
syringe in this hospital and injected herself with it.
All for attention, all for sympathy.
She got nothing else out of doing that to herself other than
attention and a lot of pain. Following this case, the
children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital has been
completely shut down. They no longer have a children's
ward just because of the horrendous memories and
connotations that would go alongside that.
They just didn't want to keep operating after what happened.
They didn't want a children's ward after everything that that
everyone been through and all of the staff that were on the
children's ward were sent to different departments.
They didn't just lose their job. Don't worry.
Beverly has since admitted to three out of the four murders
and six of the other attacks, but she claims no responsibility
for the other ones. But even though she does admit
to those things now, she's still not showing remorse.
She's still not sorry. She's never apologized to
anyone, to the victim's parents, to to no one.
She doesn't care. She doesn't care what she did.
She's a cold, calculated evil woman.
And that is all for this episode.
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