Beverley
Allitt
Beverley Allitt
was Born on the 4th of October 1968 and dubbed the "Angel of Death".
She was an English nurse who was convicted of killing four children
and injuring eleven others on the ward she worked at Grantham Hospital,
Lincolnshire.
She received
13 life sentences in May 1993. She is presently at the top-security
Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire. Her trial judge recommended
a minimum term of 40 years, which would keep her in prison until at
least 2032 and the age of 64, and even then she could only be released
if she was no longer considered to be a danger to the public. In August
2006, Allitt launched an appeal on the length of her sentence.
Allitt's motives
have never been fully explained. According to one theory, she suffers
from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a controversial personality disorder
which supposedly prompts its sufferers to falsify illnesses in others,
in order to attract attention.
In August 2006
Allitt requested early release, much to the dismay of her victims families.
The appeal court judge has written to them asking for their views.
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