Child serial killer Beverly Allitt applies for sentence review
03/08/2006
Thank you so much for handling my case so well. You came to know us at a great time of sadness and you were so kind. We will always remember you as very professional but also very warm hearted.
Sylvia, Tamworth
Nurse serial killer Beverly Allitt, who was given 13 life sentences
for murdering and attacking children in her care has applied for a
review of her sentence.
Beverly Allitt was jailed in 1993 at Rampton High Security Hospital, Nottingham. She was given a minimum sentence of 40 years.
Allitt was found guilty of four murders and attacks on nine other children at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital.
Allitt murdered children in her care by injecting them with high doses of insulin.
Specialist
clinical negligence and Shipman law firm, Alexander Harris acted on
behalf of several families of children who were murdered by Allitt at
the Allitt Inquiry.
In letters to the families, The Probation
Service say that offenders are entitled to apply for a sentence review,
but it is unlikely that many of the existing tariffs will be reduced.
Allitt was described as suffering from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy when she carried out the attacks between 1991 and 1993.
Munchausen
Syndrome - a condition identified by paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow in
1977, which he described as a form of child abuse in which carers
deliberately induced or falsely reported illnesses in children in order
to draw attention to themselves.
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