S01E05 | Beverley Allitt | The Murders of Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwick, Becky Phillips and Claire Peck

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

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4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

I tell the story of Beverley Allitt in this episode.

Beverley Allitt was a state-enrolled nurse in the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire when she murdered Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwick, Becky Phillips and Claire Peck.

The children, aged seven weeks, eleven years, nine weeks and fifteen months, respectively, were killed between February and April 1991.

In total, Beverley attacked thirteen children over 59 days in 1991 and was handed thirteen concurrent terms of life imprisonment on May 28, 1993.

A sufferer of Munchausen syndrome, Allitt is thought to have carried out the attacks to attract attention to herself.

NOTE: Beverley is now eligible for release on parole as her minimum tariff of 30 years expired in November 2021. This information came to light after this episode was initially broadcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to British murders, a true crime podcast with a focus on British murder cases.
0:17.7	My name's Stuart Blues, and I'm excited for you to join me on this journey of
0:21.1	morbid discovery. I'm by no means an expert on the subjects of homicide and serial killers.
0:26.8	However, I have always had a sick fascination with them. Together, we will learn about some of the
0:31.9	lesser-known British murderers, as well as glimpsing occasionally at some of the more notorious
0:36.3	ones. The bite-sized presentation of this podcast is intentional,
0:40.8	as we look to cover an overview of the respective timelines of each case succinctly.
0:51.5	I'd like to start this episode of British murders with a warning. The following story
0:57.0	contains descriptions of violence and murder involving children and very young ones at that.
1:03.9	Listener discretion is advised.
1:08.2	October 4th, 1968 was a very uneventful day in the history of this planet.
1:13.6	I tried to find literally anything that went on and the best I could come up with was the death of Francis Biddle, the 58th United States Attorney General and a march that happened in Northern Ireland, which attempted to be
1:29.2	cancelled, but ended up going ahead anyway. Like I said, it was a really boring newsday.
1:37.2	That all changed, however, when the subject of this episode was born on that very day. Her name,
1:44.0	Beverly Allitt.
1:47.0	Beverly grew up in rather humble circumstances in the village of Corby Glen, near the town of
1:52.8	Grantham in Lincolnshire. This is a county in the East Midlands of England.
1:58.7	Her father, Richard, worked in an off licence.
2:03.1	For any non-UK. listeners, this is a store that sells bottles or cans of alcoholic beverages
2:09.0	for consumption off of the premises, hence off licence.
2:14.2	And her mother worked in a school as a cleaner.
2:18.8	Beverley grew up with three siblings, two sisters and a brother, however, there was something
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