Amanda Jenkinson

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Amanda Jenkinson was convicted of GBH with intent for having deliberately altered crucial settings on life-saving machines in an intensive care ward, risking the lives of severely ill patients and causing GBH. The prosecution suggested that Jenkinson felt her nursing grade was too low, and that she changed settings on machines to make staff look incompetent. According to prosecution evidence, Jenkinson altered a patient’s ventilator, reducing its assisted breathing rate from 8 per minute to .8 per minute. It was reported she had a history of mental illness. On appeal it was argued that the evidence against her was “fundemantally flawed, inaccurate and misleading.” Dr. Schroeder, the expert for the prosecution, had originally developed a mathematical formula to show that the ventilator of Jenkinson’s patient had been tampered with. However, his conclusions were undermined by new evidence from consultant anaesthetist, Alan Aitkenhead, whose findings showed that the patient’s deterioration began at least five hours after Jenkinson went off duty.

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