Something which has always stuck with me is in the early days I remember the media saying how she seemed normal and she had two cats and doted on them. How can you love a cat and not want to harm it but want to kill a baby?It’s impossible to comprehend. Although having said this didn’t Myra Hindley have a dog she adored and wept when she was told it was pts.
Exactly my thinking. As Nurses it is sadly driven into us to cover yourself! Anyone I know would document that encounter - OR at least plan to. Very easy to get busy, distracted and forget.
It’s been heavy. So many destroyed families.
Hey I’ve been lurking but popping on to say im a local - born and bred in Hereford
and my friend used to live two doors from her when she lived with her parents before moving up north to do her nursing. The news when it first came out was shocking in the area and on our Hereford fb pages they’ve had to turn off comments to stop people giving their opinions - not sure if you know but Hereford is such a small place, everyone knows everyone sorta vibe. Me and my friends and fam have been discussing throughout and most have the view she is innocent! I’m super undecided and waiting to hear all the evidence and from the defence team. But yeah general mixed reviews in Hereford! Makes me shudder if she is guilty knowing she lived just down the road 🫠100%. Only thing I would write the next day is something minor I had forgotten. 'Threw patients soiled socks away with NOK's permission'. Anything big is, hopefully, remembered and documented before going home that day. Note writing en route to an unstable CT isn't always as doable as people think.
The pattern is interesting. In particular the three week gap between one attempt then two attempts on the same day (Baby G I think). In cases of sexual assault and serial murder such patterns can suggest a period of time where an urge had been satisfied, then a build up phase which could have involved looking a social media, fantasies/reliving past crimes etc, building to a need to commit an attack again.
Yes, Myra's dog underwent some procedure to try and ascertain it's exact age (I think because it had been in some photos of what the police believed to be burial scenes, so they thought that by finding out exactly how old the dog was, they could narrow down how long ago the photos had been taken) but the dog didn't survive the procedure, and when she was told she went nuts and screamed that the police were murderers.
Any notes we write must be done on/end of shift. Coming on duty the next day to 'complete' notes of my previous shift. No, definitely not.100%. Only thing I would write the next day is something minor I had forgotten. 'Threw patients soiled socks away with NOK's permission'. Anything big is, hopefully, remembered and documented before going home that day. Note writing en route to an unstable CT isn't always as doable as people think.
You would need to research physiognomy. Lots of research - uncertain on how recent that research is, but thought that might be a good starting point!
I know of that case very well being where I am from. And I know people who sat beside him in school classes and said 'he was a lovely lad'. I am a fair believer in we truly know no one only ourselves. People from school, or the workplace, while they can give a character reference, I don't believe its solid enough to say what someone is truly like. I take every one as I find them, but I wouldnt scream innocence just because I thought they were a nice person.
