Murder & homicide · 1991 · 1990s

Beverley Allitt

In 1991 nurse Beverley Allitt murdered four children in her care and harmed many more at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire. She was convicted and detained under the Mental Health Act; her case led to changes in NHS safeguarding.

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