Beverley Allitt

Beverley Allitt

Beverley Gail Allitt is an English serial child killer. She was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six. The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days from February to April 1991 in the children’s ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire.

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Summary Beverley AllittBeverley Gail Allitt is an English serial child killer. She was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six. The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days from February to April 1991 in the children’s ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire. In May 1993, at Nottingham Crown Court, she received thirteen life sentences for the crimes. Mr Justice Latham, sentencing, told Allitt that she was unlikely ever to be considered safe enough to be released.

She is detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire. Allitt’s story was depicted in episodes of the true crime documentaries Crimes That Shook Great Britain, Deadly Women, Born To Kill?, Evil Up Close and Nurses Who Kill. In the 2018 documentary Trevor McDonald and the Killer Nurse, Allitt reportedly told close friends before her trial that she would never go to prison.