Rebecca Leighton charged with criminal damage with intent?

-Why not attempted murder, or even murder? Criminal damage with intent makes a mockery of the whole thing dont you think?Yes.I hate when the police play with the charges & use them to bend the law I suppose it might be all right if it was against criminals that play the system but for a charge like this you need to know they got the right person fairlyI think you will find that the charges at present are known as "Holding charges",Criminal Damage with intent to endanger life.

I would assume that the only evidence available to the police is the fact, that she interfered with the medication in question.

Once the autopsy is carried out and the findings are such that deaths occurred because of the interference of the medicines then the more serious of charges ie, murder can be placed.
Yes indeed, if this Angel of Death, a so-called nurse, is responsible for putting insulin in saline drips, knowing that it will kill a normal person, then she deserves to be charged with - murder, not attempted murder, or manslaughter, but the big one - the murder.



This country is so crap now. The victims of crime and their families are made to feel it's their fault and that they are criminals.



You know how it is. The people who died were mostly of an age when death is either on the doorstep or coming round the corner. Not good enough. People are entitled to 'live' until their final breath and to be helped to do this by doctors and nurses.



I have no faith what-so-ever in any of the hospitals now, not after this.



As for the police, I see them as weak and ineffectual and quite useless.



As one Lady in the House of Lords put it a few days ago, "when Middle England loses faith in the police, all is lost." (Words to that effect). I agree. I live in a moderately well off middle class neighbourhood - no one I speak to likes the police very much now, esp. we don't like the Metropolitan Police after the way in which they treated the parents of Millie Dowler, making them feel they were criminals.



The police are known to be corrupt and the receivers of bribes.



What is Parliament doing about it? Nothing, because they are all part of the problem.



In the United States of America, Rebecca Leighton would now be charged with the murder of each of the people she killed. And at her trial, she would either be sentenced to death (depending on which State) or, she would serve a full life sentence for each of her victims. If a life sentence was say 20 years and she had murdered say six people, then she would serve not less 120-years.
To charge her with murder they need to have clear proof that it was the insulin which was the direct cause of death. At this point in time they don't have that evidence.
I would suspect that they do not have her banged to rights yet, so they had to charge her with something or release her. This is probably the least they could charge her with without prejudicing the investigation.