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treatment room to his cubicle, attached to a resuscitaire. The previously healthy little boy suffered two more identical attacks in the next few days. Nobody could explain why Paul had suddenly become hypoglycemic. Kath and husband David, a chartered builder, were left feeling that the medical staff were confused.
    â€˜We asked questions, but the answers they gave us didn’t seem to make sense. We felt the staff didn’t know why Paul had become hypoglycemic,’ recalled David.
    Finally, Paul was transferred to Nottingham ‘as a precaution’.
    Sue Phillips recalled: ‘His mum was in tears. One minute she had been told Paul was fine, then he was so ill. He had only gone into hospital for something simple and they only expected him to be there for a couple of days.’
    Paul was taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham where he, like the others, made a full recovery.
    Doctors took a sample of his blood to send away to a laboratory at Cardiff University for analysis, hoping for a clue that might explain what had happened to him. The results were to be shocking.

4.    Becky and Katie
    Twins Becky and Katie Phillips, who had been kept in hospital for observation after their premature birth, put on weight quickly and finally came home on 4 March when they were almost five weeks old. It was an exciting time and friends and neighbours poured in to welcome the girls.
    Sue brought them home in identical pink and white dresses, pink cardigans and frilly white socks.
    They were already showing their individual characters – Katie was always ‘a bit faddy’, as Sue put it, often playing up a little, while Becky was always very calm and placid. They wondered if it would continue that way for the rest of their lives.
    As they peered dotingly at the two, near-identical babies both asleep in their separate cots in the new back-bedroom nursery, proud father Peter remembers how he turned, smiling, to Sue and beamed: ‘They’re beautiful. They’re going to break a few hearts when they grow up.’
    But hearts were to be broken much quicker than that.
    Just nine days later Katie went back into hospital. She had had a tummy bug and, after twenty-fourhours, the family doctor decided she should go into hospital to be monitored, just as a precaution, though he suspected it was nothing more than gastro-enteritis.
    As she walked on to Ward Four Sue recognised Nurse Beverley Allitt whom she hadn’t seen since they were students together.
    Sue recalls: ‘I spotted her straight away. I hadn’t seen her for about five years, since we were at the Grantham College of Further Education together. I didn’t know her really well and I didn’t know she had actually become a nurse until I saw her there in the ward.
    ‘She wore two badges – one for the Lincolnshire School of Nursing and the other for the Royal College of Nursing.
    ‘But, while I recognised her, she made no sign of acknowledging that she knew me. She just carried on working and I was more worried about seeing how Katie was. I didn’t even stop to speak to her.’
    Sue also recognised Sister Barbara Barker who had been on the ward so long that she had nursed Sue herself twice as a child – once, at age six, when she swallowed a chocolate Brazil nut which had stuck in her throat and another, at the age of nine, when she had an ‘abscess on my bum the size of an orange’.
    Katie was in the hospital for four days and was then allowed home. Then both girls were sick and the doctor sent them both back to Ward Four.
    Two days later brother James, then aged four, went down with a bug and he, too, was admitted,so that all three of the Phillips’s children were patients in the same children’s ward.
    On her visits to the children Sue again saw Nurse Allitt several times, always busy working, but, again, the two women didn’t speak or acknowledge each other. Twice Sue noticed the chubby, blonde nurse attending to either her twins or to James, but