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03C15BEV.LIL
The Innocence of Beverley Allitt, the Lesbian Witch of Grantham
The Lesbian Witch of Grantham is not to be confused with the Hetairist Witch of Grantham.
The International Joan of Arc Office, which has for long been campaigning for the release of the innocent nurse, Beverley Allitt, is gratified by calls for reviews of all court cases where victims have been found guilty of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy. Letters to the Royaume Unie General Medical Council from the International Joan of Arc Office in the l990s all bear the slogan 'Beverley Allitt is Innocent'. The true nature of Munchausen's Syndrome as wellas the case of the Witch of Grantham, who is, on the basis of the 'evidence' presentented in court, obviously innocent, are reviewed in the Mad Monk's Memoirs, Pictures in the Attic.
Regrettably we have not yet been able to publish the relevant chapters, but some chapters of the memoirs are available on http://www.geocities.com/intercrook/GMC.html , some Press Circulars on http://www.geocities.com/onklboris/index.html and some some summaries of some earlier chapters on http://www.geocities.com/minniminiskirt/angie.html
The Allitt case has also been the subject of a complaint to the General Medical Council, suppressed by their health section, and the evidence that there has been a miscarriage of justice is contained in the GMC Superintendent Lawyer's tome about the Mad Monk, 'Evidence of Unfitness to Practice'. Sir Sagittarius Fantasticus, ace raconteur and Director and Professor of Pommie Studies at Delmonte University on Montmandie on the Isle de Belsize, in his recent inaugural lecture gives an account of the accidental deaths of hysterectomised ladies discovered on the pavements of Brick Lane in l888, who had succumbed during a trial of the anaesthetic Jecaldehyde by Sir Jeryl Kipper, an obstetrian at the London Hospital. Sir Sagittarius suggests that the entrepreneuses were not actually dead when Sir Jeryl panicked but were merely suffering from the symptoms of a vasovagal attack or faint. He had then administered 'resuscitation', a generally ineffective procedure, which had then killed the patients.
This is a familiar medical problem. It would be unfortunate, for instance, should some layman who imagined himself trained in medical matters, dupe himself into 'resuscitating' some girls who had fainted or who had lost consciousness because of low blood carbon dioxide levels induced by prolonged screaming. The Mad Monk in his evidence suggests that the children whose death is attributed to the Witch of Grantham did not faint but were victims of what are known as 'febrile convulsions' which, the Monk claims, a genuine paediatric doctor would have recognised immediately. When these patients 'collapsed'. However, the nurse had been trained to scream 'Arrest! Arrest!'when there was any manner of actual or imaginary loss of consciousness, change in muscle tone or of colour, and to mobilise the cardiac resuscitation team, whereas a doctor should have been summoned, a diagnosis made before treatment instituted - and the patient cooled and treated with an anticonvulsant. Not merely, the Monk alleges, were these children subjected to 'resuscitation' which under the circumstances was contraindicated but a paranoid committee, because of previous cases, had ordered particularly brutal resuscitation with surgical removal of the ribs and direct massage and injection of drugs into the heart. Post mortem reports in so far as they existed provided evidence of this lethal procedure but the prosecution succesfully prevented more reliable post mortems being conducted and presented in evidence.
There existed no evidence against the nurse, Beverley Allitt, but she was found guilty because she was supposedly a lesbian, was the longstanding victim of prejudice and because some psychiatric person had been rolled into court by the Prosecution to produce a mistaken diagnosis of ‘Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy’ on the assumption that the nurse was guilty and then to use the diagnosis as proof of guilt. It was those who brought the case against her who were suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome, which is always possessed by the more powerful party that wins the case but attributed to the less powerful party who loses.