Nurse wrongly accused of hospital killings ‘will never put it behind her’

A woman who was wrongly accused over the Stepping Hill Hospital murders has said she will “never be able to put this behind me fully”.

Rebecca Leighton, 31, has spoken of her ordeal for the first time since the real killer, Victorino Chua, was convicted earlier this month of murdering and poisoning patients at the Stockport hospital.

The nurse was arrested at her flat in Stockport in July 2011 and was later charged with causing criminal damage intending to endanger life or being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.