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Doctor Death's toll now 352 murders: inquiry
January 20, 2005 - 9:12AM
Harold Shipman, the family doctor who became Britain's worst-ever serial killer, may have killed 137 patients as a young trainee on top of the 215 killings already attributed to him, an inquiry revealed.
Shipman, who hanged himself aged 57 in his prison cell in January last year, is believed to have carried out some murders while a trainee hospital doctor in Yorkshire, northern England, between 1970 and 1974.
An inquiry set up to investigate Shipman's decades of murder will publish a new report later this month "into 137 deaths that occurred between 1970 and 1974", a preliminary statement by the inquiry team said.
The official probe, led by High Court judge Dame Janet Smithwill, has previously concluded that Shipman was responsible for the deaths of at least 215 of his patients while he worked as a family doctor.
The victims, many elderly women, were killed by lethal injections of morphine over a 23-year period, either at Shipman's one-man practice in Manchester, in the north of England, or at their homes.
The most prolific serial killer ever to be convicted in Britain, Shipman was jailed for life in January 2000 on 15 sample counts of murder. He always denied his crimes.
Smithwill's inquiry team, which was set up following Shipman's conviction in court, will publish their findings about the possible earlier killings on January 27.
Entitled Shipman: The Final Report, it is the sixth report to be published by the team.
The fifth report, published in December, lambasted Britain's medical watchdog, the General Medical Council, for "looking after their own" rather than protecting patients from bad doctors.
AFP
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Doc...110843686.html
How can one man get away with over 350 (
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY!) murders?! It's almost beyond belief.
Does this make him the world's worst serial killer? If we discount the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot of course.
I don't know. I'm just aghast, even though I've been familiar with this story for a few years. This latest revelation just makes it worse.
Mr Mephisto