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The series begins by examining the case of Allitt, a nurse on the children's ward of a hospital in Lincolnshire. She poisoned a string of young patients under her care over the course of 59 days in 1991, murdering four.

Over the course of 59 fateful days between February and April 1991, nurse Beverley Allitt poisoned a string of young patients under her care. Allitt worked on the children's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire, England. She administered overdoses of insulin and potassium to 12 sick children on the ward and attempted to kill one other with an oxygen desaturation attack. She was tried and convicted of four counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and six counts of causing Grievous Body Harm in May 1993 and received 13 life sentences for her crimes - which she is serving at the Rampton Secure Psychiatric Hospital in Nottinghamshire. Allitt's motive for the attacks has never been fully explained, was she suffering from the rare and controversial psychiatric disorder Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy?—Mark_a_Wood <markawood@hotmail.co.uk>