biography
pronunciation:
[alit]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1969– )
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| biography:
| British convicted murderer. A nurse by profession, she was convicted in 1993 of the murder of four children in her care and of the attempted murder of three others. Dubbed the UK's first female serial killer, she allegedly suffered from a medical condition termed ‘Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy’. She is currently detained at Rampton General Hospital for the Criminally Insane. |
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