It was, as one doctor put it, the safest place in the world. A place where babies smaller than an adult’s hand take their first fragile breaths, where every pounding heartbeat is cause to celebrate, and where – almost always – those born on the edge of life eventually go home with their parents.
To imagine a killer stalking the quiet, hopeful corridors of a hospital neonatal unit is to push back the frontiers of what many think of as evil. That a young, smiling woman in blue NHS scrubs could carry out these crimes is somehow even worse.
