I was in two minds about starting this thread but just heard the story and was totally shocked. Cant really get my head round it, a baby serial killer?? The most evil **** we’ve had yet? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-merseyside-54901679
This. It’s really important for the suffering families that due process is observed and no newspapers jeopardise this.
Shocking. Imagine how I felt when the story originally broke a few years ago, and I realised that: a) not only were she and I in the same year at university b) she came round to our house for drinks
Yeesh! You never know who's psychotic and who's not (though I wonder if she let her guard slip when under the influence)
I don't think she will be psychotic in the medical sense More likely sociopathic or some antisocial personality traits. Possibly some borderline traits in terms of poor sense of identity You would envisage from other nurses etc who kill in hospitals that they like and get a sense of importance from the attention that goes around a severely ill child they are looking after, with them near the centre.
Horrible horrible situation and of course innocent until proved guilty but this of course does throw up the usual issue. If she is found not guilty or found to be suffering from some mental incapacity there are huge implications in publishing her name and face. It's about time that all parties in legal cases, defendants, witnesses, victims remain anonymous. Publishing this detail really is not in the public interest and only serves to get page impressions.
Yeah that's more the line I was going along. I'd err towards her having narcisstic and antisocial disorder traits
That's a tricky one, less in this case, because there is no bail, but people would be outraged to find that their loved ones were being nursed/taught/given driving lessons whatever by someone on bail for a serious crime and this was kept from them. There is a public right to know. Moreover, the identification of someone who is charged allows other potential witnesses to come forward. Would I like it if it was me? Hell no, but partly the problem is that the public, encouraged by the newspapers, tend to think guilty before innocent rather than keep the open mind they should.
I get where you're coming from but someone with an allegation like this against them would be suspended from their job as a matter of course whether the allegations are job related or not. There's a difference between making it public and informing concerned employers/bodies that would normally check this sort of history out. I would make it contempt of court if said employer/body released information or was subject to date breech that caused it.