UK: Child killer nurse must serve minimum of 30 years

Killer nurse Beverly Allitt, who was sentenced in 1993 to 13 life sentences for murdering and attacking children, today had her minimum term fixed at 28 years and 175 days by a judge in the High Court in the UK.

Mr Justice Stanley Burton, sitting in London, said the least Allitt should serve was 30 years – less the one year and 190 days spent in custody before sentence – which was the same term previously recommended by the trial judge and the then Lord Chief Justice.