Eleanor Neale

And this other doctor had asked nurse Beverly Allitt to go and get a syringe, go and prepare a syringe for Michael.

So she brought this syringe back to the doctor who administered it to Michael, and literally within minutes, his heart stopped.

So suddenly, so randomly, and luckily they could resuscitate him, but they couldn't figure out why this had happened.

And everyone that was on the ward that day all agreed that this was weird, that this wasn't natural, that something odd had happened here.

And they did want to look into it, they did want to investigate, but the only thing being, like I said, they were so understaffed on this ward

they simply didn't have time to investigate why this could have happened.

They were just so busy with all of these patients that no one had a spare hour to go and do tests on this boy and figure out why this happened.

They had to be like running around, like looking after all these children.

So actually they just concluded that Michael must have been allergic to the medication or something like that.

He had an adverse reaction and that must have been the explanation.

But really they never actually found out an explanation.

Another child named Christopher Peasgood was admitted to the children's ward with a chest infection, just like a lot of children before him.

And within a few hours of arriving, he stopped breathing.

He stopped breathing twice, actually.

He was resuscitated and then stopped again, and then he was resuscitated again.

That's another pattern here as well.

These cardiac arrests are not just one singular thing.

A lot of these children are having repeated attacks.

But yeah, he was resuscitated for a second time and he seemed to bounce back fine.

And after that, he never had another attack.