Over the course of 59 fateful days between February and April 1991, nurse Beverley Allitt poisoned a string of young patients under her care. Allitt worked on the children's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire, England. She administered overdoses of insulin and potassium to 12 sick children on the ward and attempted to kill one other with an oxygen desaturation attack. She was tried and convicted of four counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and six counts of causing Grievous Body Harm in May 1993 and received 13 life sentences for her crimes - which she is serving at the Rampton Secure Psychiatric Hospital in Nottinghamshire. Allitt's motive for the attacks has never been fully explained, was she suffering from the rare and controversial psychiatric disorder Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy? Written by Mark_a_Wood markawood@hotmail.co.uk

Between December 2003 and February 2004 more than 18 patients at Horton General Hospital in Oxfordshire suffered respiratory arrest or respiratory depression while under the care of Accident and Emergency ward nurse Benjamin Geen. While 16 of the patients recovered soon after, two men died and Geen was arrested on 9th February 2004. Upon his arrest an empty syringe was found in his pocket, tests revealed traces of a muscle relaxant in the syringe. An internal hospital investigation identified 27 cases that were scrutinised but 9 were later discounted and Geen was acquitted in one case which was found to have been caused by natural causes. Ben Geen stood trial at Oxford Crown Court where it was alleged that he had deliberately and repeatedly administered potentially lethal doses of drugs to cause patients to stop breathing because he got a thrill out of then resuscitating them. Geen maintained his innocence throughout the trial, but was convicted on two counts of murder and 15 counts of ... Written by Mark_a_Wood markawood@hotmail.co.uk

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Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Niels H administered lethal doses of drugs to patients in order to later 'show off' his resuscitation skills.

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Colin Norris targeted elderly patients by administering them unnecessary doses of insulin.

The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.

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