Nurse jailed for killing husband fights to clear name

A nurse jailed for injecting her husband with a fatal dose of insulin is making her case to the Court of Appeal. In light of new medical evidence she is attempting to quash her conviction. 

Jailed for life in 2000 Deborah Winzar was found guilty by a jury of murdering her husband Dominic McCarthy. He was found collapsed at their home in Cambridgeshire on the 31st January 1997. 

Her 34 year old husband was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 1984.  

Prosecutors at Birmingham Crown Court claimed that Deborah, who had been a senior ward sister at Kettering General Hospital, had administered overly high levels of insulin which had led to his collapse. 

Since being released from jail Deborah has been campaigning to overturn the original sentence. Consequently the Criminal Cases Review Commission suggested there was a case to answer and referred matters to the Court of Appeal.

And in light of new evidence the CCRC suggested that there was a real "possibility" that her conviction might get quashed. The barrister representing Deborah Winzar stated that, "to rely on only one blood sample would, in my view, be unsafe".

After being formed in 1997 the CCRC has heard 648 cases and 437 have led to previous convictions being overturned.

The case continues.

The Johnson Partnership

Crime Solicitors 

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