Angel of Death

It made national headlines: the true story of how state enrolled nurse Beverley Allitt murdered four children on her ward and attempted to take the lives of many others. Liam Taylors death, on 21 February 1991, was to become the first in a string of infanticides carried out by the soon-to-be-notorious Angel of Death. Between February and April 1991, four babies were murdered and another nine attacked.

Recounting the emotional turmoil of those parents, the 3-month police investigation, Allitts motive and accounts from her early life, John Askill and Martyn Sharpe tell a sensitive, at times harrowing, tale of how this plain, rather ordinary girl from the small village of Corby Glen became one of Britains most notorious serial killers.