Factitious Disorders: Münchausen Syndrome, Feigned Madness, Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Münchausen by Internet, Factitious Disorder
Friday, 11. June 2010
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Münchausen Syndrome, Feigned Madness, Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Münchausen by Internet, Factitious Disorder, David Southall, Beverley Allitt, Ganser Syndrome, Wendi Scott, Julie Gregory, Wendy Scott. Excerpt: Beverley Gail Allitt Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968), dubbed the Angel of Death , is an English serial killer who murdered four children and injured five others while working as a State Enrolled Nurse (SEN), on the children’s ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital , Lincolnshire . Her main method of murder was to inject the child with potassium chloride (to cause cardiac arrest ), or with insulin (to induce lethal hypoglycemia ). She was sentenced to life imprisonment at her trial at Nottingham Crown Court in 1993 and is currently being held at Rampton Secure Hospital . The victims Trial and imprisonment Allitt had attacked 13 children in the space of 15 days before she was finally arrested. It was only following the death of Claire Peck that medical staff became suspicious of the number of cardiac arrests on the children’s ward and police were called in. It was found that Allitt was the only nurse on duty for all the attacks on the children and she also had access to the drugs. Four of Allitt’s victims had died. She was charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm in November 1991. On Friday 28 May 1993 she was found guilty on each charge and sentenced to 13 concurren…