Let-off for killer nurse

A Filipino nurse has been spared jail after killing a pensioner by giving him the wrong blood transfusion when she confused the name ‘Huseyin’ with ‘Hussain.’ Lea Ledesma’s criminal negligence caused the death of 75-year-old Ali Huseyin at the London Heart Hospital in Westmoreland Street on 7 May, 2014. The 49-year-old nurse gave Mr Huseyin AB-type blood meant for fellow patient Irfan Hussain, 37, who was blood group ‘O’. Ledesma insisted the wrong patient details were displayed on the victim’s…