Nurse loses appeal against 2008 convictions for murder of four patients in Leeds | Leeds

A nurse found it guilty of killing four elderly patients 17 years ago and failed to object to her convictions.

Colin Campbell, who changed his name from Norris, was sentenced to at least 30 years of imprisonment for the murder of four women in 2008 and trying to kill insulin by injecting insulin.

All of them were patients in orthopedic wards in Leeds, all of them in 2002.

Doris Ludlam, 80, Bridget Bourke, 88, Irene Crookes, 79 and 86 -year -old Ethel Hall died of hypoglycemia, where blood sugar fell dangerously.

At a 14 -day hearing earlier this year, Campbell’s lawyers argued that the new information about the naturally occurred hypoglycemia means that the Court of Appeal should find that convictions are insecure.

In a decision on Thursday, the judges rejected the appeal.

In his decisions, Lady Justice Macur, Mr. Justice Picken and Sir Stephen Irwin said: “We have no doubt about the safety of any of the five convictions.”

Four years ago, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which directed convictions to the Court of Appeal in London, defined the case against Campbell as “completely conditional”.

During the original attempt, each patient was allegedly present when hypoglycemia experienced or recently present. In a short period of time, it rarely led the prosecutors to claim that the nurse should be responsible.

The prosecutors told the court that Campbell, who was originally from Glasgow, had previously exhibited a dislike and hostility towards elderly patients, and that he had foreseen the death of one of the women and told his colleagues: “Tonight can go at about 05: 15.”

Defense experts, Campbell’s alleged victims were exposed to hypoglycemia behind the natural reasons, while claiming that Hall had been killed.

The ward records of the pharmaceutical stores showed that two vials in Ward 36 are in the refrigerator of the ankrapide insulin bottle. “On the evening of November 18, 2002, on November 20, 2002, missing at 6 o’clock”

The records could not explain their usage, and someone in the night shift used an inference to inject the hall to inject the hall.

CCRC wrote the following in the decision to express the case: “There was little evidence especially imprisoned. [Campbell] In the murder of Mrs. Hall, as long as it can be allegedly pointing to the participation of the lawsuit. “

Michael Mansfield KC, who moves for Campbell, also said that there were four other “sudden and deep” hypoglycemia cases in Leeds teaching hospitals after Campbell stopped working.

Judges of the Court of Appeal, in his decision, said that these cases did not help Campbell’s appeals, because there was a different degree of violence against hypoglycemia in the event of killed women.

In their decisions, they said: “In our own analysis, ‘extra’ cases serve to underline this aspect of the phenomena that are said to be distinguishing in the case of this exogenous insulin.”

For nurse Lucy Letby, who sentenced seven babies to kill seven babies in nursing care, some campaignists tried to associate their case with Campbell’s, arguing that she trusted the joke in both prosecution.

Letby’s conviction is evaluated by the CCRC after two unsuccessful attempts. A series of lawyers and a number of experts argue that bad medical care and natural causes are behind the babies who died in the Council of the Newborn Unit of the Chestter Hospital.

In the Campbell decision, the Court of Appeal tried to distance some distance between the two cases.

They said: “Some observers have announced in their applications to watch the cases. [remote link] That they are trying to draw parallels between this case and other similar situations.

“We clearly state that each of them contributes to the necessity of explaining the decision we have reached by identifying the relevant issues and addressing the conviction in the conditions of this case, depending on our opinion of a complex debate among distinguished scientists.”

Lawyer Mark McDonald, who represents Letby, said: “The Court of Appeal rightly decides on the decisions of Norris to avoid parallelism and other cases.

“This objection was decided on certain facts and very different from Lucy Letby.

“There are 26 internationally 26 -famous experts who say that Lucy is now not determined and that no crime is convicted.

Campbell also objected to his conviction in 2009.