That is, doctors/nurses and hospital management, believing Ben to be guilty of deliberately trying to harm this patient then tried to find evidence to support this view and believed they had found it by unearthing records of other patients who had died at the hospital when Ben was on duty.

McTavish was tried in 1974 for the murder of an 80-year-old patient, Elizabeth Lyon [4] [5] and assaulting three other patients by giving them illegal injections.Lucy Letby is guilty of murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder 6 more, all between June 2015 and June 2016 Lucy was arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of the police investigation at the hospital, which began in 2017. However, his legal team has argued that the respiratory arrests suffered by patients were not the “extremely rare” events portrayed at his trial. LL allegedly kills Child E that Monday night (dying early tuesday morning), and attempts to murder Child F that same week. Clark’s first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in September 1996, and in December 1998 her second died in a similar manner.

What would you do if you learned you were adopted, your biological mother was a convicted murderer and your father’s true identity was a mystery?Despite the lack of any concrete evidence linking the two nurses to the crime, they were found guilty on three counts of poisoning in July 1977.

The prosecution case relied on significantly flawed statistical evidence presented by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million.Assistant DA Ed Kane, who handled the case, admits somewhat lamely that “we knew we had serious problems with the indictment,” and says he wishes he had sought expert medical opinion before proceeding. The police cannot be objective and question the reasonableness of this situation, however, because Dame Janet Smith in the Shipman Inquiry openly criticised the police for not suspecting his patients had been unlawfully killed.

McTavish was dubbed the "Angel of Death" after she was found guilty of the 1973 murder of Elizabeth Lyons,80, in ward 5 of Glasgow's Ruchill Hospital. Looking at all the evidence, all I can say is I think Colin Norris’s conviction is unsafe,” Prof Marks said. Police witnesses claimed that she had admitted carrying out a “mercy killing” and explained that she gave Mrs Lyon the injections because she “wanted to be put out of pain and misery”.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees.