1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,360 In the UK, all medical staff have an oath where they vow to 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,760 do no harm to their patients, but Nurse Beverly Allet betrayed 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,440 that earth in the most diabolical of ways, making her 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,880 one of the most notorious serial killers in British history. 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,600 Outlaw. Hello and welcome to Outlaw 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,840 Podcast. I'm Eleanor Neil and today we're 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,840 serving you up a true crime case from the vault. 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,080 This episode was originally posted to my YouTube channel 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,440 years ago, before we existed as Outlaw Podcast, but I think it's 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,400 time we add it to the Outlaw catalog. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,560 So now I will hand back to me from the past to take it away 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,080 with today's Vault case. Oh, and by the way, today's case 13 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,360 has multiple parts. This is Part 1 and we'll see you 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,880 next week for Part 2. So today's video is going to be 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,280 another true crime case. Today we're going to be talking 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,400 about Nurse Beverly Allit, AKA the Angel of Death. 17 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,920 Now, before we get into it, I do just want to give my usual 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,480 disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,480 anyone that I talk about in this video. 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,600 This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm 21 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,400 about to say is just information that I have found on the 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,840 Internet and I'm compiling into one video. 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,160 There are a lot of content warnings for this case, so I'm 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,520 just going to list them all off. Now. 25 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,080 Listen closely and if any of them are topics that you don't 26 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,600 want to listen until right now, I completely understand. 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,800 Click out of the video here. Throughout this case, there's 28 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,080 going to be a lot of discussion of mental illnesses and things 29 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,320 relating to that, including personality disorders, self 30 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:38,760 harm, anorexia, Munchausen syndrome, and Munchausen 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,720 syndrome by proxy. There's also brief mentions of 32 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,440 animal abuse, domestic violence, and rape. 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,040 So if any of the above are things that you don't want to 34 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,760 hear about, like I said, click out now. 35 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,040 Hopefully I'll get to catch you a different time with a 36 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,120 different case, but look after yourself. 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,040 All that being said, let's let's just get into Part 1 of the 38 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,200 Angel of Death. So today's case begins in 39 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,200 Grantham in Lincolnshire, which is in the East Midlands of 40 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,400 England. And that is where Beverly Gayle 41 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,160 Allit was born on October 4th, 1968. 42 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,800 She was the second of four children in her family and she 43 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,360 very much had middle child syndrome. 44 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,800 You know how they say that the middle child never really gets 45 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,160 enough attention from their parents, whether that's 46 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,440 intentional or not, it just kind of like seems to happen. 47 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,520 And she always craved a closer relationship with her parents 48 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,240 all the way through her childhood. 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,280 And I mean, it's not like she was being neglected. 50 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,360 I really don't think she was from like the way it's spoken 51 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,480 about in sources and stuff. I don't think she was neglected. 52 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,200 I think it was just she wanted more attention than what she was 53 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,200 getting. But her parents had to split 54 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,160 their attention between four children. 55 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,400 So it just wasn't enough for Beverly as she was growing up. 56 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,560 And when she joined primary school for the first time and 57 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,520 she was like mingling with other kids her age, making friends, 58 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,840 and they were talking about their mums and dads, that was 59 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,840 when it kind of really hit home for Beverly about like how 60 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,760 different her situation was to the other kids. 61 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,320 They would talk about like all the things that they would do 62 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,560 with their mum and dad on a weekend, all the places they 63 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,520 would go, all the fun things they would do. 64 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,520 And Beverly just couldn't relate because she just didn't spend as 65 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,680 much time with her parents as other kids did. 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,720 It made her feel really jealous and she subconsciously started 67 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,080 to resent her parents for not being there for her the way that 68 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,680 other kids parents seem to be for their kids. 69 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,880 As she grew up and became a teenager, Beverly Allett gained 70 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,720 a significant amount of weight which made her feel very 71 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,120 insecure just in herself. Her confidence just went like 72 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,360 that and I think that was less to do with the way that she 73 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,560 looked, but more to do with the bullying that came with this 74 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,680 weight gain. You know what kids are like. 75 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,240 They will pick on anyone for anything that makes them 76 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,920 different and for Beverly that was her weight. 77 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,160 Her weight was what made her different to all the other kids. 78 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,440 The kids at school were just awful to her about her size and 79 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,480 she felt so left out. She was always the butt of the 80 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,320 joke. She was never like in on things 81 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,000 with other people. She was never really treated as 82 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,040 an equal to the other kids. She was always the one that 83 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,920 everyone laughed at. So she'd gone from having no 84 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,320 attention on her all her life to now having a lot of attention. 85 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,240 But the bad kind, you know, it was negative attention that she 86 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,560 was getting. It was bullying. 87 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,880 All she ever wanted was for people to be nice to her and to 88 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,160 spend time with her and, you know, to just to just be friends 89 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,320 with her. Positive kind of attention from 90 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,200 her peers. That's all she ever wanted. 91 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,400 But she just wasn't getting it. And so she came up with a plan 92 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,040 on how she was going to get this attention. 93 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,600 She turned up to school one day with a bandage on. 94 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,200 And every time she passed someone in the hallway, they 95 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,680 would see this bandage and be like, Oh my God, like what 96 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:56,960 happened? Are you OK? 97 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,040 Is everything all right? You know, they would say like 98 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,440 nice caring things about this injury that Beverly had. 99 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,880 Little did they know she didn't have an injury. 100 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,280 She'd just put that bandage on on a non existent wound for this 101 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:12,840 exact reason. So that people would come up to 102 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:16,080 her and and care about her and ask her questions and give her 103 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,600 attention. And clearly it worked. 104 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,800 And so from this point on, Beverly started doing this a lot 105 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,280 more often. She would do bandages, she would 106 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,120 put plasters on. She even like made herself a 107 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,160 fake cast, which like, this is a child in primary school. 108 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,480 So I don't know how she did that, but she did. 109 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,920 But as time went by and Beverly keeps showing up to school with 110 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,560 all these different bandages, plasters, it stops getting her 111 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,080 the attention that it once did because people are just getting 112 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,080 used to Beverly being injured at this point. 113 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,280 She realized that in order to still get this attention that 114 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:54,200 she once got, she was going to have to step up these injuries. 115 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,920 It wasn't enough to just have a bandage on her arm anymore. 116 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,640 She needed to show people that she was hurt and this is when 117 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,080 Beverly allit began self harming. 118 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,920 She would go home and break things like glasses or plates so 119 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,080 that she could then use a Shard of glass or a Shard of this 120 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,600 crockery and cut herself with it. 121 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:17,960 So then she would be able to go into school and have these 122 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,200 visible injuries on her that people could see and then people 123 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,160 would care again. And it was around this time that 124 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,080 she started becoming obsessed with anything medical. 125 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,240 Obviously it started out with like the bandages and stuff, but 126 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,240 now it was, it was becoming an obsession, just anything 127 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,160 medical. She was obsessed with different 128 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,840 medications, different treatments, different chemicals, 129 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,880 all this kind of stuff. She loved learning about it. 130 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,160 She loved hearing about it. And although it went undetected 131 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,080 at the time, it's easy to see, looking back, that at this point 132 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,520 in her life, Beverly Allit was developing Munchausen's 133 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,720 syndrome. Munchausen's syndrome is a 134 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,520 mental health condition in which the person will purposefully 135 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,720 make themselves ill or harm themselves in some kind of way 136 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,640 in order to get attention or sympathy. 137 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,680 And the thing that separates Munchausen's syndrome as a 138 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,400 mental health condition with like other similar things, like 139 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,360 people doing similar things, is that someone with Munchausen's 140 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,720 syndrome knows that they are doing it. 141 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,800 They know that they are not sick. 142 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,440 They know that they are not ill, but they want that attention so 143 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,200 bad that they will fake it in order to get it. 144 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,840 That's what separates that like it being a condition rather than 145 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,280 just being like odd behaviour. They know that they're 146 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,680 manipulating people. That is why they're doing it. 147 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,760 It is a manipulation tactic as well as a mental health 148 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,840 condition, and it can take many different forms. 149 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,320 Of course, like Beverly, they can resort to physically harming 150 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,560 themselves, like cutting themselves or using fake 151 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,720 bandages to make it look like they've got an injury. 152 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,120 Or people will do other things like tampering with medical 153 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,040 equipment, like heating up a thermometer to make it look like 154 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,720 they've got a fever. Some people will even poison 155 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,480 themselves with like different medications so that they will 156 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,240 actually get sick, but they've done it to themselves for the 157 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,680 attention. It can even be like faking 158 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,440 psychological illnesses like depression or anxiety or like 159 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,760 schizophrenia. People will fake hearing voices 160 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,600 in their head, stuff like that. It can take so many different 161 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,120 forms. And Beverly was still very, very 162 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,120 young as she was developing this. 163 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,160 And I think that's one of the reasons why it went so unnoticed 164 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,840 because she'd just always been like that because she developed 165 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,679 it so young. She was still in primary school, 166 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,520 so she was like, what, 10 years old, possibly even younger when 167 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,440 she starts faking these injuries, putting bandages on to 168 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,040 go to school. But anyway, aside from all of 169 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,360 that that was going on, Beverly did live a normal life, a normal 170 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,080 childhood. In fact, her family was very 171 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,280 nice, if you can say that. I know she didn't get enough 172 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,720 attention growing up, but that was like the only problem they 173 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,240 had. She had nice parents, She had 174 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,160 nice siblings. Like her parents really wanted 175 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,400 all of their children to go to this prestigious grammar school 176 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,720 in the area because it gave them the best chances in life. 177 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,760 But this grammar school that they were all trying to get into 178 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,200 after primary school, it was one of those where you have to take 179 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,240 a test to be able to get in. There's an entry test, and if 180 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,600 you don't pass that test, you don't go to that school. 181 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,960 Beverly's older sister took that test. 182 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,280 She passed it. She got into this prestigious 183 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,360 grammar school. Her parents were so chuffed. 184 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,240 But then Beverly's turn came. She took the test and she 185 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,600 failed. She didn't get into that grammar 186 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,440 school that her parents wanted her to go to. 187 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,760 And this really disappointed Beverly. 188 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,360 I don't think her parents, like had an issue with this. 189 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,840 Obviously, they would have preferred for their children to 190 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,120 go to a better school, but it wasn't the end of the world that 191 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,520 Beverly was just going to have to go to a normal school. 192 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,040 But Beverly herself was just like really hard on herself 193 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,040 about this. And I think it was the sum of a 194 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,640 lot of different emotions in her life because Beverly had never 195 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,200 been extraordinary at anything. She was always just a very 196 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,960 average girl in her looks, in her intelligence, in her 197 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,040 sporting ability, in her talents. 198 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,880 You know, there was nothing that ever made her feel stand out. 199 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,360 And I know that kind of sounds awful, me sitting here saying 200 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,640 she was average in all of these different categories. 201 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,920 But that's just what everyone said. 202 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,600 She never really put the effort into any part of her life to be 203 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,240 able to excel, and so she did. She was just always average at 204 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,240 everything and she always looked at her older sister who was 205 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,080 above average at everything. Intelligence, sports, she was 206 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,280 very popular in school, all this kind of stuff. 207 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,880 And Beverly saw her sister as a version of herself that she 208 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,640 could never be. And I think this rejection from 209 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,640 her sister's school only made her feel even more inferior to 210 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,120 her siblings. It was just perpetuating this 211 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,200 attention seeking cycle that Beverly Allit was stuck in. 212 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,200 So anyway, Beverly starts her own secondary school, this other 213 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,200 school, and as soon as she starts, she is always I'll. 214 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,480 She is always either off school or she's coming home from school 215 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,720 early for anything. She would have backache, neck 216 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,600 ache, a sore throat, a cold stomach ache, you name it, she 217 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,840 had it at one point and she was off school for it. 218 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,160 So she had very poor attendance for that exact reason. 219 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,440 She was barely ever at school. And that mixed with the fact 220 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,360 that at the best of times, she, she was not a very personable 221 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,120 person. She was not very friendly or 222 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,840 outgoing. She didn't put herself out 223 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,680 there. And because she was barely in 224 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,280 school anyway, this all stopped her from making friends. 225 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,960 The other girls in Beverly School apparently thought she 226 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,560 was quite weird and they didn't want to involve her in different 227 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,200 things. And so this made Beverly Allen's 228 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,840 teenage years very, very lonely. Like, she's not getting the 229 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,600 attention from home, she's not getting the attention at school. 230 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,720 She's just not really got any. And don't take that the wrong 231 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,080 way, it's not like people didn't like her, it's just that she 232 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,040 didn't have anyone close to her. But her parents loved her, her 233 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,840 siblings loved her. She didn't have it bad is what 234 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,640 I'm trying to say. She just didn't have it great 235 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,720 either. And everyone around her at this 236 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,200 point, her friends, her family, any like anyone teaches, they 237 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,040 were all very unaware of her Munchausen syndrome. 238 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,840 Everyone just believed her. Every time that she said she was 239 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,720 ill, everyone always believed her. 240 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,360 In fact, the only people that didn't believe her were doctors. 241 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,160 But Beverly had a plan on how she was going to get around this 242 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,240 because every time she would go and see a doctor and they would 243 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,280 doubt her, she would never go to that doctor again. 244 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,200 So she was just constantly going to different doctors, telling 245 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,680 them all these issues, and as soon as one of them would get 246 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:50,600 suspicious, she'd leave. She didn't want to risk them 247 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,920 exposing her lies because then that would push her even further 248 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,440 away from the attention that she's so craved. 249 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,560 So already as a teenager, she is very crafty about this. 250 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:03,640 She knows how to get what she wants. 251 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,120 In fact, one of the maddest things that she ever faked with 252 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,000 her Munchausen syndrome, she actually convinced the doctors 253 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,880 that she had appendicitis and that she needed her appendix 254 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,960 removing. I actually can't believe it got 255 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,320 to surgery. Like she had her appendix taken 256 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,240 out. Do they not do scans? 257 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,600 Do they not like have a look at it before they removed it? 258 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,960 Because actually the surgeon that removed it as soon as he 259 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,680 like took it out of her human body, he looked at it and he was 260 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:36,720 like why are we taking this out? This is not inflamed. 261 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,160 It doesn't look like it should be causing Beverly problems. 262 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,120 Like why are we here doing this surgery? 263 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,800 It looks fine. She never had appendicitis. 264 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,680 Never. She'd somehow managed to fluke 265 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,160 all these different appointments and scans. 266 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,120 Well, did she ever have a scan? I don't know. 267 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,640 But she managed to fluke them all and get herself all the way 268 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,720 to the operating table. And she didn't even stop there. 269 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,280 She was going to try and milk this appendicitis thing for all 270 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,680 it was worth because after the surgery she would Even so like 271 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:08,760 the wounds that she had from her incisions. 272 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:14,120 She would pick up those wounds and intentionally try to fault 273 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,960 the healing of them or even infect them, make them worse so 274 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,280 that she would have to keep going back to the doctors to get 275 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,640 like, medication or to get them looked at to get them cleaned up 276 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,440 because it was just prolonging the attention that this 277 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,600 appendicitis gave her. These wounds that should have 278 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,640 taken probably a matter of weeks to heal actually ended up taking 279 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,720 months because Beverly was juicing them for all they were, 280 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,120 you know, juicing them. Not literally juicing them 281 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,480 obviously, but like juicing all the attention that she could out 282 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,920 of this. Anyway, when Beverly Allip 283 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,760 finally finished high school, she actually left with very few 284 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,720 qualifications overall. She got one O level, which is 285 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,760 the equivalent of a modern day GCSE. 286 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,920 That's like the qualification that you get at the end of high 287 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,520 school in the UK and that was in food and nutrition. 288 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,560 So she got one O level in food and nutrition and then she got a 289 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,400 few Cses, which is like a step below an O level, step below a 290 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,280 GCSE. It's kind of for people that 291 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,680 probably not going to pass their GCSE, so they put them through 292 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,760 this kind of foundation level just so that they'll get at 293 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,560 least something, you know? And she got 4 Cses in English, 294 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,440 maths, French and Biology, whereas her older sister had 295 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,080 passed all of her own levels. She got every single 296 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,760 qualification that she possibly could out of high school, 297 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,240 whereas Beverly got one and like 4 halves. 298 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,160 So she was still constantly comparing herself to her sister. 299 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,280 She was constantly feeling inferior. 300 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,120 And after leaving school, Beverly Allit couldn't really do 301 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,040 much with the few qualifications that she did have. 302 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,280 Like you do kind of need your own levels to be able to go on 303 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,720 and get the good jobs. And so she she needed some other 304 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,600 kind of qualification to back her up in life. 305 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,480 So she started looking into some special courses for people that 306 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,120 have less qualifications, for people that maybe only have Cses 307 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,600 and stuff like that. And that was when she found a 308 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,800 vocational course to become a nurse. 309 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,800 And because no one had really caught on to her Munchausen 310 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,240 syndrome at this point, no one realized just how disastrous 311 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,360 this career path could be. And disastrous it was. 312 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,920 So anyway, she enrolls herself on this nursing course and at 313 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,200 one point she actually ends up befriending an older woman that 314 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,000 worked at the Grantham and Kirsteven hospital. 315 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,160 And this woman acted as like a slight mentor for her. 316 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,480 It wasn't full on but like she was there for Beverly to ask 317 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,440 questions and stuff whenever she needed. 318 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,800 And this woman actually lent her a bunch of textbooks, her old 319 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,720 textbooks about like nursing theory and medicine and all 320 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,600 these different things. So Beverly was studying for her 321 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,360 nursing course and at the same time she actually picked up a 322 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,680 part time job at her local pub. And it was at this pub in this 323 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,560 job where she actually started to develop socially a lot 324 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,319 actually. She was finally forced to learn 325 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:11,319 some people skills. Up until this point, she hadn't 326 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:13,839 really been like pushed in the deep end like that. 327 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,960 But when you're doing a social job, literally pouring pints, 328 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,599 you need to be able to hold a conversation with the customer. 329 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,000 She ended up befriending a lot of the regulars that would come 330 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,800 in the pub often. A lot of them were like 331 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,400 middle-aged men and they loved Beverly. 332 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,680 She was like one of their favorite bartenders. 333 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,840 They thought she was attractive and she would always tell them 334 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,440 all these like, fun, interesting stories. 335 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,080 And it actually earned her the nickname the fable because a 336 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,080 fable is like a fictional tale. And the men could always tell 337 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,360 that she was lying about these stories. 338 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,800 She always had the most crazy, most interesting stories, which 339 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,800 were obviously lies, but none of the men ever like called her out 340 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,400 on it too much. It was just kind of a joking, 341 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,840 like underlying thing saying that she was always lying in 342 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,360 these stories. Everyone knew that, but no one 343 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,880 ever really liked. Do you know what I'm trying to 344 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:05,760 say? It was never an issue, but like, 345 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,120 they all knew she was lying. But they were such like little 346 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,720 random stories that it didn't really matter. 347 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,720 But yeah, like I said, a lot of the men were attracted to 348 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,200 Beverly and this was like the first time in her life that she 349 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,080 was ever getting male attention in this way. 350 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,640 It wasn't just like middle-aged men that were attracted to her 351 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,320 by the way. There were boys her age that 352 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,600 would come in the pub and she actually got talking to a lot of 353 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,840 the boys her age and she ended up dating a few of them. 354 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,840 She got into her first ever relationship when she was like 355 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,440 1718 and it didn't last very long. 356 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,080 She was in like a string of different short term 357 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,760 relationships until she met a man named Steven Briggs when she 358 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,440 was 19 years old. He was the first one of these 359 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,400 boyfriends to stick around longer than like a month or two 360 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,720 and actually he was with her for a full year and then he 361 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,920 proposed. So the two of them were going to 362 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,440 be married. Unfortunately, though, not long 363 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,400 after the two of them got engaged, their relationship 364 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,920 turned sour and Stephen actually ended up leaving Beverly. 365 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,040 And he was very vocal about this at the pub, because he would 366 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,800 still go in that local pub and everyone knew Beverly there. 367 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:14,360 And he did not shy away from telling everyone there that it 368 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,000 was all Beverly's fault that they'd split up. 369 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,480 Because Beverly allit was supposedly a rather abusive 370 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,040 partner, physically and emotionally. 371 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,400 She would hit him, she would manipulate him. 372 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,320 She was very aggressive, very violent, and also very 373 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,520 deceptive. She would lie to him all the 374 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,040 time. And actually that was the thing 375 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,480 that made him leave her. Not the physical abuse, not the 376 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,720 emotional abuse. It was the lying. 377 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,240 Because it got to a point where Stephen was just like, I don't 378 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,880 know what is real and what is not in my relationship, in my 379 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,160 whole life. He didn't know who the real 380 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,240 Beverly was. He didn't know what their 381 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,680 relationship was. He just like it was really 382 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,440 messing up his head and it was that that actually made him 383 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,720 leave her. But in fact, the one lie that 384 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,600 was the final straw in this relationship was when Beverly 385 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,400 Allen lied to Stephen Briggs that she'd been raped. 386 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,120 And she even said that she was pregnant with her rapist's baby. 387 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,760 Of course, it didn't take long for Steve to find out that this 388 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,600 was all a lie. And that was it for him. 389 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,800 He could not stay with a woman that was that could lie about 390 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,000 something like that. So Beverly is now about 20 years 391 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,640 old. She's single again. 392 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,520 She's still in this nursing course. 393 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,760 And actually, it's no surprise that being in the medical field, 394 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,920 being around, you know, other nurses, training nurses, it was 395 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,120 all making her money. Chausen's syndrome, a million 396 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,520 times worse. She was actually training on 397 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,560 site at a hospital. So she was working in a hospital 398 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,920 day in, day out. And for the first year of her 399 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,600 course, she had 160 sick days. Just to put that into 400 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,880 perspective, that is the equivalent of 1 1/2 days a week 401 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,840 every week or six days every month. 402 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,840 That is an insanely high absence rate. 403 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,320 And she was sick, like off work for things like a sore throat or 404 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,680 a cold or like backache, you know, things that a lot of 405 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,400 people would just work through. At first it was fine. 406 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,520 You know, people believed her. But then after, you know, 100 407 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,760 sick days, people were starting to doubt the authenticity of 408 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,400 this. And in fact, a few of her Co 409 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,000 workers caught her a few times trying to fake a high 410 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,840 temperature on a thermometer. She would boil water in the 411 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,880 kettle and then put it in her mouth like when it's nearly 412 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,800 still boiling. She would have been like hurting 413 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,960 herself for this, and then she would put the thermometer in, so 414 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,080 then the temperature would go whoosh and she'd look like she 415 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,480 had a fever. But Beverly wasn't just doing 416 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,640 all of this like just to get out of work. 417 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,040 I think that's what her course thought. 418 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,320 They thought that she was just faking sick because she couldn't 419 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,280 be bothered, like doing her work. 420 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,120 But actually this was just who Beverly was at this point. 421 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:02,240 Like all of these fake illnesses and stuff that she would have. 422 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,680 She would go to the doctors for it as well because it was all 423 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,880 about attention and sympathy. It wasn't to get out of doing 424 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,040 things that she didn't want to do. 425 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,120 It was because she wanted people to like, ask how she was and 426 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,480 stuff like that. So she would go to the doctor 427 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,960 160 * a year with like fake illnesses. 428 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:25,200 In 1990, the year 1990 alone, Beverly Allit visited the 429 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,960 doctors over 50 times. That works out at like nearly 430 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,120 one a week. If you were Beverly's doctor, 431 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,880 you would be sick of seeing that face. 432 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,440 So anyway, when Beverly Allit was 20 years old, she graduated 433 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,760 her nursing course and she would was offered to stay on at that 434 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,120 hospital and she was given like just another trainee nurse, like 435 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:46,880 just another further training position. 436 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,600 So she wasn't like fully qualified. 437 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,080 She didn't have a job there yet. She was just going on to like 438 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,880 the next stage. And in this next stage, all of 439 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:59,640 the trainee nurses got to live together in dormitories on the 440 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,200 hospital grounds. So Beverly was about to move in 441 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,040 with a bunch of other nurses, and this ended up going probably 442 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,400 even worse than what you're imagining in your ahead right 443 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,800 now. Because as soon as Beverly Allen 444 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,880 moved into these dormitories, a lot of weird, unexplained things 445 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,920 started happening. Curtains were set on fire. 446 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,360 Smoke alarms were set off for no reason. 447 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,640 Locks in the doors were filled with super glue so that no one 448 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,520 could get in or out. But one of the worst things that 449 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,560 happened by far in these dormitories was one day one of 450 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,640 the nurses actually came back from a really long shift that 451 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,880 she'd been working. She went and put the oven on to 452 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,640 to go and make herself some dinner and all of a sudden the 453 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,960 room as this oven heated up, the room filled with the smell of 454 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,920 human feces. And when this nurse went and 455 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,720 took a look inside that oven, there was human feces smeared 456 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,200 all over the inside of it. And not just the oven, it was in 457 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,640 the fridge, it was on the walls. Human feces smeared all over the 458 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,160 dormitories. It was actually horrifying. 459 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,640 And everyone suspected Beverly of this. 460 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,360 Of course, it all started happening as soon as she moved 461 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,160 in. People were already suspicious 462 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,080 of her just in general with like all the time that she would have 463 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,520 off of work. People just didn't, you know, 464 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,520 her Co workers just didn't really like her or respect her 465 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,880 because she seemed like a weird, weird nurse. 466 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,560 But yeah, she moved into the dormitories and it just so 467 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,160 happened that in the same week all this weird unexplained shit 468 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,280 starts happening. Annoyingly though, Beverly Allit 469 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,560 was never caught in the act and there were no cameras in the 470 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,720 dormitories. This is like the 1990s. 471 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,960 So security cameras weren't everywhere at the time. 472 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,360 So whenever anyone accused her, she could just deny it and be 473 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:50,440 like, no, I wasn't even there when when that happened. 474 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,000 But everyone knew she was. Everyone knew she was like, she 475 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,160 was always home whenever these weird things would happen in the 476 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,960 dormitories. These weird things would never 477 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,680 happen when she was out on shift. 478 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,480 So yeah, everyone kind of knew it was Beverly, but no one could 479 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,600 really prove it. And it actually got so bad that 480 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,000 the hospital had to put out a statement to all of these nurses 481 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,440 saying if these weird things don't stop happening, we're 482 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,920 going to have to kick you all out. 483 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,480 We're going to have to take you all off this training program, 484 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,600 kick you out of the dormitories because we can't be facilitating 485 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,240 this. So yeah, the hospital threatened 486 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,800 to remove them all from the course if these things didn't 487 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,120 stop. And what do you know, they 488 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,360 stopped immediately. Actually, nothing ever happened 489 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,960 again after that. And they never officially 490 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,480 figured out who it was, so no one was ever punished. 491 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,560 But you know, everyone always thought or knew it was Beverly 492 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,520 Allit. But anyway, now that she is 493 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,800 literally living on hospital grounds, her Munchausen's 494 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,920 syndrome gets even worse. It's just progressively getting 495 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,720 worse and worse and worse through her whole life. 496 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,000 And one of her most dangerous stunts that she did as she was 497 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,840 working in that hospital, because bear in mind, now she's 498 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,680 got access to loads of medical equipment, which for someone 499 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,960 with Munchausen syndrome, that is terrifying. 500 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,800 And she took full advantage of this. 501 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,920 Her most dangerous stunt was when she went and filled a 502 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,320 syringe with water and then injected one of her breasts with 503 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,880 this water, making it comically larger than the other one. 504 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,200 And then she was going up to all the friends being like, Oh my 505 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,560 God, I'm so worried about my, my large breast. 506 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,600 And all her friends were just like looking at her. 507 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,840 And they just did not know what to say at this point because 508 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,960 they knew she'd done it to herself. 509 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640 No one had seen her do it. But like they just knew. 510 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,720 And like, what do you say to that? 511 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,720 They were just baffled with how unprofessional and dangerous 512 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,440 this woman was on the job. But no one ever really said 513 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,520 anything to her because no one ever wants to be that Co worker 514 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,400 that's got a problem with another Co worker. 515 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,720 You know what I mean? It's just uncomfortable. 516 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,240 So no one ever said anything, but they definitely should have. 517 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,960 Nurses did however, start to distance themselves from Beverly 518 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,800 Allit. They never like told her off or 519 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,960 like got her into trouble, but they didn't want to be a friend. 520 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,360 They started leaving her out, they started going for lunch 521 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,680 without her. And once again Beverly found 522 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,200 herself very lonely in life. She was stuck in this cycle all 523 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,920 her life of not getting enough attention. 524 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,760 So she'd do all this crazy weird stuff in order to get attention, 525 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,600 but that would just end up pushing people even further away 526 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,600 because now they, they think she's really weird for doing 527 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,000 those things. She just made it so much harder 528 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,240 for herself to be able to make friends because she just kept 529 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,760 putting people off her. So anyway, by the end of her 530 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,080 further training course, the course that she was on at the 531 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,880 moment, she was actually the only nurse out of all of them 532 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,840 that wasn't offered a permanent position at that hospital. 533 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,120 She was the only one. The main reason being her 534 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:55,240 attendance. She'd had so much time off that 535 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,920 the hospital just didn't see her as a reliable staff member. 536 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,840 They couldn't count on her to be a good nurse. 537 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,560 And also because she'd had so much time off, that meant she'd 538 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,840 missed so much of A training that she just wasn't that good 539 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,920 of a nurse. Like, obviously if everyone else 540 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,040 is practicing day in, day out, learning day in, day out, but 541 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,400 you're taking 160 days off a year, you're not going to know 542 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,440 as much as the rest of the people on your course. 543 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,200 So they wanted to give all these women jobs, but they just 544 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,880 couldn't. They just couldn't give one to 545 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,560 Beverly instead because the hospital did see potential in 546 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,480 her. You know, she'd done all this 547 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,720 different training through the years and they wanted to be able 548 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,920 to give her a job, but they couldn't right now. 549 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,600 So in the meantime, they decided to give her a six month 550 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,560 temporary contract on the children's ward because the 551 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,880 children's ward at Grantham Hospital anyway was deemed the 552 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,240 more like easy ward to work on. Because the children's ward at 553 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,080 Grantham and Kesteven Hospital was very small compared to 554 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,360 normal children's wards and they didn't deal with very severe 555 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,800 things. They only dealt with like broken 556 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,560 bones or infections and stuff like that. 557 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,400 If it was anything worse that needed like more serious 558 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,040 attention, they would just refer the child to a different 559 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,000 hospital, normally Nottingham Hospital, they would send the 560 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 kid to her. So yeah, these were all kind of 561 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,760 less serious, easier things to treat and they were confident 562 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,040 that Beverly could do these things. 563 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,920 But to be honest, I don't think they would have even given her 564 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,320 this six month temporary job on the children's ward had that 565 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,840 that hospital not being so terribly understaffed. 566 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,880 They were so desperate for any nurse that they were willing to 567 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,040 give a job to this woman that they know is not a good nurse. 568 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,800 But they just didn't have enough people working at the hospital 569 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,280 that, you know, they had to take on anyone that they could get. 570 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,280 They hoped that putting her on this six month temporary 571 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,400 contract would give her enough time to build up her skills, 572 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,080 build up, you know, her confidence in this job that by 573 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,160 the end of this six months they could review it and maybe give 574 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,880 her a more permanent position in a different wing of the 575 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,480 hospital. So she's now working on the 576 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,040 children's ward. And the shift pattern on the 577 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,960 children's ward was there would be two fully trained, fully 578 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,000 qualified nurses on during the day and 1:00 during the night. 579 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,280 And these fully trained qualified nurses would be 580 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,160 supported by trainee nurses. I think there was usually about 581 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,520 two or three on each shift. And Beverly was always one of 582 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,880 these like trainee girls. And the children's ward at 583 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,320 Grantham Hospital was a really, really nice ward to work on. 584 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,520 From what I read, they were a very like, because it was a very 585 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,520 small ward, all of the nurses that worked there were very, 586 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,880 very close. It was like a little tight knit 587 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,920 family they called themselves. And they were more than 588 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,920 welcoming to Beverly Allen. They were very excited to have 589 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,560 her in the the children's ward family. 590 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,040 So Beverly Allen's first shift was on February 18th, 1991. 591 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,240 She was 22 years old when she started this job, and she was 592 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,320 very right and eager to learn. She was very excited to be in 593 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,080 this position. And actually, she came just at 594 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,160 the right time because this was about to be one of the busiest 595 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,200 periods that the children's ward ever had. 596 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,840 Nurses actually described this as their busiest winter yet 597 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,640 because so many kids were falling. 598 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,680 I'll with, you know, very typical winter illnesses like 599 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,800 colds, flus, viruses, chest infections, but there was just 600 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,320 such a huge number of them that the hospital really needed this 601 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,360 extra pair of hands. And that actually brings us to 1 602 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,920 of Beverly's first ever patients, A7 week old baby named 603 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,880 Liam James Taylor. Liam had a really nasty chest 604 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,040 infection that ended up developing into pneumonia, which 605 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,160 is why he had to be hospitalized, sent to the 606 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,800 Grantham Children's ward. And his parents were so worried, 607 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,840 I think as any parent would be in that situation. 608 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,320 They were losing sleep. They were so stressed they could 609 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,240 barely eat. And nurse Beverly Allen sat them 610 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,400 down and she reassured, showed them that their son was in good 611 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,040 hands. They were going to do everything 612 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,640 they could to help him. And in fact, she actually 613 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,240 suggested that they go home and get some rest because their son 614 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,760 was in good Care now. And his parents were just so 615 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,200 grateful for all the help from the staff. 616 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,280 And so, yeah, they went home. They rested. 617 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,560 They, you know, got some sleep for the first time in days. 618 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,840 However, when they returned to the hospital the next morning, 619 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,000 they were greeted with some bad news that Liam had actually 620 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,160 taken a turn for the worse during the night. 621 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,880 At one point he'd actually stopped breathing completely. 622 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,520 He had some sort of respiratory attack and they managed to bring 623 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,240 him around. They managed to resuscitate him 624 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,520 and he was breathing again now the next morning. 625 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,680 But they wanted to keep an eye on him because they didn't know 626 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,840 where this attack had come from, why it had happened, and they 627 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,960 wanted to make sure that another one wasn't going to happen as 628 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,720 well. So he was going to be kept in 629 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,280 for a second night now. And Nurse Beverly Allit wasn't 630 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,200 actually supposed to be working that second night, but she 631 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,880 actually volunteered to go in and work that shift unpaid just 632 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,120 so that she could look after Liam Taylor. 633 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,440 And everyone was so grateful for her offering this. 634 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,320 The hospital, because they were so understaffed, they really 635 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,600 needed that extra pair of hands. And of course, Liam's parents, 636 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,760 they thanked Beverly Allett so many times because that was such 637 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,600 dedication to their son. So yeah, he's staying in for 638 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,520 another night. But just before midnight that 639 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,720 night, he had a second respiratory attack. 640 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,360 He stopped breathing again. They managed to resuscitate him, 641 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,600 but this time he didn't bounce back quite as well as he did the 642 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,600 first time. The first time he pretty much 643 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,040 fully recovered, whereas this time he was very weak. 644 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,000 And then within a few hours of his last attack, Liam had a 645 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,640 third respiratory attack. He stopped breathing for a third 646 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,280 time in what, like 24 hours? Obviously, at this point, he was 647 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,040 hooked up to all these different machines and monitors that were 648 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,440 checking his heart rate and his breathing and stuff like that. 649 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,360 And if he was to stop breathing, these monitors are all supposed 650 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,560 to go off, sound alarms to alert the staff who can come in and 651 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,360 help him. But this third time that he 652 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,320 stopped breathing, the monitors didn't go off. 653 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,760 They didn't alert to him stopping breathing. 654 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,000 It was actually Beverly Allit that noticed that he'd stopped 655 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,719 breathing. She went into his little 656 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,800 hospital room and she saw him laid there in the bed. 657 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,840 He was so pale. His lips were blue. 658 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,840 He had like red splotches all over his face. 659 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,320 It turned out that Liam Taylor had suffered a huge cardiac 660 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,840 arrest. This is a 7 week old baby and 661 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:35,719 during this cardiac arrest his heart just completely stopped 662 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,280 and his brain was starved of oxygen for so long that it meant 663 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,920 that he would be permanently disabled and brain dead. 664 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,960 Following this attack, doctors put Liam Taylor on a life 665 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,040 support machine and they contacted his parents who rushed 666 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,719 straight to the hospital. But as soon as they were 667 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:59,000 informed just how severe their son's condition was, his parents 668 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,800 made the decision to take him off of life support. 669 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,800 Liam James Taylor died in his parents arms at just seven weeks 670 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,520 old. His recorded cause of death was 671 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,080 cardiac arrest. In a little message on his 672 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,920 gravestone, Liam's parents refer to him as Pudding Pants, which 673 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,640 was like a cute little nickname that they'd given him in the 674 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,440 short yet sweet time that they'd had with him. 675 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:26,160 And following this, the hospital were just devastated that 676 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,560 something like this had happened, that they lost a child 677 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,400 like this. And, you know, it is all part of 678 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,880 the job. You know, not every case can be 679 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,360 a miracle case where you save someone's life. 680 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,120 You know, in this industry, you do watch people die. 681 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,520 And it's heartbreaking every single time. 682 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,240 Yet these nurses knew that they had a job to do for all the 683 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:50,400 other children on that ward. And so they pick themselves up 684 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,640 and they got back to work. Little did they know that the 685 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,760 death of Liam Taylor would be the start of a string of 686 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,440 unexpected child deaths there at Grantham Hospital. 2 weeks 687 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,280 later, on March 5th 1991, eleven year old Timothy Hardwick was 688 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,080 admitted to the children's ward. Timothy had cerebral palsy and 689 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,560 he suffered epileptic fits, one of which had actually been so 690 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,800 severe while he was at school that his school had to phone for 691 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,400 an ambulance which then transported him to Grantham 692 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,440 Hospital. He was originally only supposed 693 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,200 to be kept in for one night just because of this severe epileptic 694 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,480 fit and they just wanted to keep an eye on him. 695 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,120 They just wanted to make sure that he recovered properly after 696 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,680 the fit. However, the longer he spent in 697 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,320 hospital it seemed the worse he was getting. 698 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,200 And then later that night, just as Liam Taylor had done two 699 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,360 weeks prior, Timothy Hardwick went into cardiac arrest and he 700 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,320 stopped breathing. A huge team of doctors rushed to 701 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,200 his bedside and they did absolutely everything in their 702 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,840 power to resuscitate him, but they just couldn't save him. 703 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,000 And so at 6:15 PM that night, 11 year old Timothy Hardwick was 704 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,640 pronounced dead just hours after arriving at the hospital. 705 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,640 His death was so unexpected. I mean, Liam Taylor's had been 706 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,880 as well, but Timothy was literally only there just for 707 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,320 observations. They really thought that he was 708 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,200 going to be fine to go home the next morning. 709 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,440 They were literally just watching him to make sure he was 710 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,960 fine. They never expected to lose him. 711 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,480 So for that exact reason, an autopsy was carried out on 712 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,800 Timothy Hardwick because they wanted to figure out how he'd 713 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,760 just randomly gone into cardiac arrest and died. 714 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,960 But during this autopsy pathology, this just could not 715 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,840 figure out his cause of death. There was nothing unusual, 716 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,320 nothing out of the ordinary. They just, they genuinely did 717 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,400 not know. And so for that reason, they 718 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,320 just assumed that his cause of death had been something to do 719 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,600 with his epilepsy. And it was recorded as such. 720 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,760 Following his death, Timothy's mother wrote a poem for him that 721 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,480 I believe was read at his funeral. 722 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,200 And I have it here for you now. Oh Timothy, my special boy, how 723 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,000 I'd love to see you more, to see you laugh and walk and talk 724 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,400 perhaps. Is that too much for a mum to 725 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,720 ask? My heart cries out for you my 726 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:09,520 lad, and so does the heart of your poor dad. 727 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,120 In Grantham Hospital at the same time as Timothy Hardwick, was a 728 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,200 15 month old baby named Kaylee Desmond. 729 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,840 She'd been admitted about a week prior with quite a nasty chest 730 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,200 infection and so they were keeping a close eye on her and 731 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,720 it seemed that she was recovering quite well and that 732 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:27,480 she was going to be able to go home soon. 733 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,240 So doctors started signing all these discharge forms. 734 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,840 They were really getting ready to say goodbye to her and let 735 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,520 her go home. Nurse Beverly Alec went in and 736 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,280 she was helping her prepare all the things and as she did, 737 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,280 Kaylee Desmond went into cardiac arrest twice. 738 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,960 Both times she was able to be resuscitated. 739 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,280 But because this had happened twice in such a short space of 740 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,680 time, Grantham and Kesteven Hospital didn't feel equipped to 741 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,160 take care of this girl and so they very quickly transferred 742 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,960 her to Nottingham Hospital for monitoring there. 743 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:04,000 This is a baby, just over a year old and she's just had two 744 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,680 cardiac arrests in what, like an hour, less than an hour. 745 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,120 So they were really, really worried about her at this point 746 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,000 in time. She got to Nottingham Hospital 747 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,200 and they carried out a thorough physical examination of her. 748 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,040 This was an otherwise healthy child. 749 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,720 I mean, yes, she did have a chest infection, but she was 750 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,480 pretty much at the end of that. She was pretty much recovered. 751 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,960 So how and why could she have possibly gone into cardiac 752 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,120 arrest twice in an hour out of nowhere? 753 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,440 So yeah, like I said, they carried out this physical 754 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,960 examination to see if they could find anything wrong with her, 755 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,480 and they couldn't. There was really nothing. 756 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,320 I mean, there was one note on the file they'd found, like a 757 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,240 puncture mark and an air bubble in her armpit. 758 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,520 But they just kind of put that down to, like, an accidental 759 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,760 injection or something from the other hospital. 760 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,160 It didn't seem like it caused cardiac arrest anywhere. 761 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,600 Following her ordeal, Kaylee Desmond was actually left 762 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,600 permanently disabled because her brain had been starved of oxygen 763 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,040 for so long. Doctors initially told her 764 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,720 parents that she would never be able to walk again. 765 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:09,600 She would never be able to talk again. 766 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,720 And you'll be happy to hear that she's actually proved them wrong 767 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,000 on both counts. But yeah, eventually Kaylee was 768 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,560 released from Nottingham Hospital. 769 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,560 She didn't go into cardiac arrest again. 770 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,840 They had no idea why she had twice in a row but she never did 771 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,440 ever again. So But anyway, back to the 772 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,640 Grantham and Kirsteven hospital. Just two weeks after the last 773 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:35,000 child death, a 5 month old boy named Paul Crampton was admitted 774 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,000 to the children's ward and this was purely A precaution, just 775 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,600 like Timothy Hardwick had been. He had this bad epileptic fit, 776 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,280 but they just wanted him in hospital just to care for him. 777 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,200 Paul Crampton was kind of the same in that he'd had a really 778 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,000 bad chest infection but it was on its way out. 779 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,560 But he was wheezing really badly and they just wanted to keep an 780 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,240 eye on his breathing and stuff. So he was in hospital maybe for 781 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,680 a couple of days. It was literally just to be on 782 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,720 the safe side. They really thought that he was 783 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,880 fine and he pretty much recovered and that he was 784 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,960 probably going to go home within the next couple of days. 785 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,760 But within hours of this five month old baby arriving at the 786 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,920 hospital, his parents got a Paul in the early hours of the 787 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,200 morning, telling them to get to the hospital ASAP because their 788 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,760 son had taken a turn for the worse. 789 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,280 Paul Crampton had gone into sudden cardiac arrest just like 790 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,000 all those other children had. And doctors rushed to his 791 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,280 bedside and they managed to resuscitate him. 792 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,640 They managed to get him back, but again, they couldn't figure 793 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,520 out how and why this had happened. 794 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,240 So yeah, they're doing all these exams, all these tests on him to 795 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,120 try and figure it out. And then within a few hours of 796 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,520 the last one, he goes and into cardiac arrest again, a second 797 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,360 time. Again they managed to 798 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,160 resuscitate him, but this time he's just so weak. 799 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,800 He's gone pale. His lips are blue, red splotches 800 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,600 on his face, just like the other boy. 801 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,640 They treated him with glucose, which actually helped to perk 802 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,520 him up completely because a lot of cardiac arrests are all 803 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,640 cardiac arrests. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but a 804 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,000 lot of them are caused by like hypoglycemia, which is not 805 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000 enough glucose in your body, I think. 806 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000 But they treated him with glucose and it worked. 807 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,280 And actually, once they gave him this glucose, he bounced back to 808 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,400 pretty much a completely healthy, happy baby. 809 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,800 And doctors were just so confused how he had suddenly 810 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,680 gone into cardiac arrest and then suddenly snapped out of it 811 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,240 as soon as they gave him this glucose. 812 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,080 None of this seemed natural. But, yeah, like I said, they 813 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,920 were just so confused at how this young boy had just suddenly 814 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,600 gone into cardiac arrest. And so they decided to keep him 815 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,200 on the ward again for a few more days so that they could monitor 816 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,160 him. And he was recovering well. 817 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,240 Seemed like he was going to be going home soon. 818 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,120 So the nurses start getting him ready to leave, there's a sign 819 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,320 in the discharge forms, all that kind of stuff, and his parents 820 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,240 decided to go down to the Hospital Cafe for some lunch 821 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,160 while they were getting their son sorted. 822 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,480 However, when they returned to the children's ward, all the 823 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,240 nurses were running around panicking. 824 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:01,560 It turned out that Paul Crampton had gone into cardiac arrest for 825 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:06,040 1/3 time and now the nurses at the Grantham Hospital just could 826 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,440 not deal with this. Like I said, it was a small 827 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,160 ward, understaffed, they don't deal with severe cases and so 828 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,280 straight away they wanted to transport Paul to Nottingham 829 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,960 Hospital where they were a lot better equipped to deal with it. 830 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,800 I think they'd managed to resuscitate him by now from this 831 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,480 third cardiac arrest. And so they put this five month 832 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,160 old baby in the back of an ambulance to transport into 833 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,360 Nottingham Hospital. And Nurse Beverly Allet, you 834 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,400 know, the Angel that she was, she offered to go free of 835 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,760 charge, volunteer her time to sit in the back of that 836 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,760 ambulance with this baby to make sure that he got to the next 837 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,520 hospital safe. And everyone again was so 838 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,000 grateful for her doing this. So yeah, anyway, Paul Crampton 839 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:51,240 reaches Nottingham Hospital and they are just so confused at all 840 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,480 these different cases they're getting from the Grantham 841 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,880 Hospital. They're just seemingly very 842 00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,160 healthy young, very young babies that just keep having cardiac 843 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,160 arrests out of nowhere. And so this time they really 844 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,480 wanted to test this boy and see what was going on. 845 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,840 They did physical exams, blood tests, all different kinds of 846 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,960 analysis tests, swabs, everything. 847 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,960 Also at the Nottingham hospital, they treated him with glucose 848 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,640 just like they had at Grantham. And again, he perked up 849 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,480 completely, which was weird. Like that people can perk up 850 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:26,040 from sudden cardiac arrest 1/3 in like the space of a few days 851 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,720 and just be completely back to their normal selves. 852 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,520 That doesn't happen. So they took all these samples, 853 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,080 sent them off to the lab for analysis and when they got the 854 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,400 results back, doctors could not believe their eyes. 855 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,760 Paul Crampton blood insulin level was at 500. 856 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,200 And just for context, the level of a child his age should be 857 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,680 anywhere between 10 and 15. His was 500. 858 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,200 Doctors just knew that this was not natural, especially because 859 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,440 he'd gone into cardiac arrest so suddenly and recovered so 860 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,880 suddenly. Nothing about this was natural. 861 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:06,560 And so they put this really mad insulin result down to two 862 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,120 possible reasons. The first reason could have been 863 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,080 faulty equipment, faulty, you know, testers, something. 864 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,320 It could have been just like an anomaly, fluke result, because 865 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,360 sometimes that happens. Sometimes you do get false 866 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,280 results. That's why they do multiple 867 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,000 tests of things to make sure that it's not an anomaly. 868 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,560 But like here, they only had one or option #2 that doctors put 869 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,360 this down to. And the one that they believed 870 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,960 more so was that Paul Crampton was suffering with an 871 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,960 insulinoma. An insulinoma is basically a 872 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,240 little tumor in the pancreas that releases a lot of insulin 873 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,640 all in one go, causing an attack like this. 874 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,560 And they couldn't find this insulinoma on his pancreas 875 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,200 because they did look for it, thinking that this was the cause 876 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,560 and there wasn't one there. So they thought, well, maybe it 877 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,840 had like, released all this insulin and then fixed itself. 878 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,120 It like, gotten rid of itself. That was the only explanation 879 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,640 that they could think of anyway. There was no proof that there 880 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,920 ever was an insulinoma. But like, that's all they could 881 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,080 think could have happened. And so they kept Paul Crampton 882 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,280 in the Nottingham hospital for a few more days, checked him over, 883 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,320 and he was fine. He recovered really well, 884 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,800 actually rather quickly. Five month old Paul Crampton was 885 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,360 discharged from the hospital and he never suffered A cardiac 886 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,480 arrest or a respiratory attack or any kind of insulin related 887 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,520 problems ever again. For the rest of his life. 888 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,120 He never had another problem like that. 889 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,280 He was lucky to survive this medical anomaly. 890 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,760 However, other children from the Grantham Hospital wouldn't be so 891 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,560 lucky. And that is all for Part 1 of 892 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,960 this case. We'll see you next week for Part 893 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,240 2. And thank you so much for tuning 894 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:51,200 in to Outlaw Podcast. Please make sure to follow us 895 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,360 and rate the pod and I will see you in the next one.