Ward poison patients put at 17

police now believe 17 people were poisoned by contamination of saline solution at Stepping Hill Hospital.

Following the release of nurse Rebecca Leighton last month, Greater Manchester Police said they were looking at around 42 potential victims who may have been harmed by the contaminated solution.

Detectives and medical experts have been reviewing those cases and have now concluded of the 42 in total, 17 people were poisoned; 16 other cases have been eliminated from the inquiry and nine others are still being investigated.

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Three of these were Tracey Arden, Arnold Lancaster and Alfred Weaver, who later died. Police said there was still no official cause of death.

Nurse Miss Leighton, 27, spent more than six weeks in custody but was freed on September 2 after proceedings were dropped.

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