'Nan can finally rest in peace' (From Warrington Guardian)

'Nan can finally rest in peace'

THE jury was told how retired shop manager May Taylor, from Crewe, was given 'inappropriate' levels of diamorphine by a Graesby machine set up by Salisbury.

The ward sister was then heard to ask colleagues 'why prolong the inevitable?'

Salisbury tricked doctors into prescribing diamorphine for the patient who had suffered a very serious stroke and was not expected to survive.

She told medics the patient was in pain and agitated, even though other nurses insisted the patient was comfortable. Mr Justice Pitchford described this as 'calculated dishonesty'.

Prosecutor Robin Spencer QC said: "The defendant deceitfully created the means of hastening the patient's death."

Mrs Taylor died with her breathing suppressed by diamorphine.

Mr Justice Pitchford told Salisbury: "In the case of Mrs Taylor you intervened and your action probably made a contribution to the end of her life."

After the case, May Taylor's granddaughter Alison Williams said: "We are very pleased with the outcome and this verdict.

"The past two years have put my mum and our family through a lot of heartache, torment and stress, and today Nan, can finally rest in peace, knowing that justice has been done.

"We can only say that justice has been done for all that she did to Nan, who had her life taken in the wrong way. Life is given to us and only God has the right to take it away. "