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10 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
43 mins
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?
Episode 2
42 mins
Between December 2003 and February 2004 more than 18 patients at Horton General Hospital in Oxfordshire suffered respiratory arrest or respiratory depression while under the care of Accident & Emergency ward nurse Benjamin Geen. While 16 of the patients recovered soon after, two men died and Geen was arrested on 9th February 2004. Upon his arrest an empty syringe was found in his pocket, tests revealed traces of a muscle relaxant in the syringe. An internal hospital investigation identified 27 cases that were scrutinised but 9 were later discounted and Geen was acquitted in one case which was found to have been caused by natural causes. Ben Geen stood trial at Oxford Crown Court where it was alleged that he had deliberately and repeatedly administered potentially lethal doses of drugs to cause patients to stop breathing because he got a thrill out of then resuscitating them. Geen maintained his innocence throughout the trial, but was convicted on two counts of murder and 15 counts of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 17 life sentences. Campaigners fighting to clear Geen's name have claimed that he has been the victim of a major miscarriage of justice but an appeal against his conviction failed in 2009. The case has been submitted to the Criminal Case Review Committee for review. Was an innocent nurse working to treat seriously ill and injured patients in a busy A&E ward wrongly convicted or did he really take pleasure from "playing God" with those under his care?
Episode 3
60 mins
Episode 4
60 mins
Italian nurse and ward joker Daniela Poggiali was present at over 90 deaths in just two years. The same time deaths were happening a string of petty thefts were also taking place. The thefts cause suspicious fellow health workers to call in the police. To add even more intrigue to the larger than life nurse, photos of her posing with dead bodies were found on her phone. The patients that had died she said were "irritating."
Episode 5
45 mins
The chilling story of German nurse Stephan Letter, who was tried for the murders of 29 patients at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Sonthofen.
Episode 6
60 mins
Episode 7
44 mins
Due to privacy laws of Germany, Nils is still allowed his privacy, so in the county he did his crimes, the camera-shy man's still to reveal the extent of his multiple murders.
Episode 8
45 mins
Colin Norris was a highly respected nurse who was targeted elderly female patients. She deliberately injected them with insulin.
Episode 9
44 mins
The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.
Episode 10
60 mins
Charles Cullen was a nurse that is believed to have killed over 300 patients. Experts analyse the actions and motive of this insidious serial killer.