Nurse jailed for trying to kill patients

A “CALLOUS and unprofessional” nurse was jailed for five years in Britain yesterday for trying to kill two elderly patients in a bid to free up beds.

Ward sister Barbara Salisbury, 48, was found guilty of the attempted murders of 88-year-old May Taylor and 92-year-old Frank Owen at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Cheshire.

The jury at Chester Crown Court delivered the verdicts following a trial that lasted more than six weeks. It acquitted her of the attempted murder of two other elderly patients.