One victim was found after tests to have an inexplicable quantity of pethidine in their system, while the murder victim had been injected with soluble insulin. 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.

Sister Jessie McTavish was one of the first members of the medical profession to be found guilty of using insulin as a means of murder. And he was, although tiny for his age, bigger than these precious babies so I imagine the effect on their bodies would be even more drastic. Once suspicion was directed at the nurses, every unexpected event occurring while they were on duty tended to be attributed to them, without sufficient effort being made to discover alternative causes. The Toronto hospital baby deaths were multiple alleged poisonings of babies at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children that occurred between June 1980 and April 1981, when charges of murder were laid against a nurse at the hospital.Fellow nurses describe Adams as intense and high-strung and say that on duty she is sometimes curt and abrasive. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. You should not suffer any detrimental treatment for doing so, as long as you follow the correct processes. The emergency department of any hospital is different each and every day and can quickly shift from the quietest to the most hectic department in the hospital in literally a matter of minutes.

Later analysis suggests that the tests and methodologies that pointed to poisoning were flawed, and may have been generating false positives. Three appeals court judges said that while there was ample evidence to support the conviction, [6] the McTavish's legal team's successful argument—that the judge, Lord Robertson, had inadvertently misled the jury—would prevail.If you see something within your workplace that you believe is negligent, improper or illegal, then you should report this to the relevant people.