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‘Saline’ nurse: I’m scared to go out alone | Daily Star Rebecca Leighton fears attacks from vigilantes who still think she is a poisoner

I thought I would be home for tea-time. I had done nothing wrong

Rebecca Leighton

She was accused of injecting saline drips with insulin at a hospital where three patients died.

All charges were dropped against ward sister Rebecca and she was released after six weeks in prison.

Prosecutors decided they had not got enough evidence to go to trial.

But yesterday Rebecca, 27, said: “People will say there is no smoke without fire.

“I was refused bail for my own protection because the public would have built up an opinion about me.

“It is hard to ever see about having a normal life. Even now my life isn’t normal. I am living at my parents’ and not working.

“I can’t walk around the streets on my own because I am scared. Someone has got to be with me all the time.’’

Rebecca was arrested at the flat she shared with her fiancé a mile from Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, where police are continuing to hunt for the poisoner.

She revealed: “We couldn’t believe it was happening.

“I thought I would be home for tea-time. I had done nothing wrong.

“I had no idea of what was to come. I have been left now to try to sort everything out myself.

“I would like to think I will get the normality of my life back, but I don’t know. I would love to have my life back as it was before.”