"Give In. It's Time To Go."

"A ward sister tried to murder four of her elderly patients in a ruthless drive to free hospital beds, a court was told yesterday" (Nigel Bunyan, Daily Telegraph, 29 April 04). Barbara Salisbury "gave a 76-year old man an excess of diamorphine, telling him, as she did so: 'Give in, it's time to go.'

"On another occasion she instructed a nurse treating a 92 year-old, 'Lay him flat. With any luck his lungs will fill up with water and he will die.'

"'She justified her administering of diamorphine to an 88 year-old woman at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, Cheshire, with the observation: 'Why delay the inevitable?"'