It horrible. This man has killed more people than AKs in jolly old England, those Brits should ban docs.
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Los Angeles Times: British MD Accused of 215 Murders
[url]http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/ats-ap_intl15jul19.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dtopinternational[/url]
British MD Accused of 215 Murders
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press Writer
July 19 2002, 6:36 AM PDT
LONDON -- Family doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's worst serial killer, murdered
215 of his patients in 23 years as a trusted small-town practitioner, a public
inquiry reported Friday.
The inquiry's head, High Court Judge Dame Janet Smith, said there was also a
suspicion Shipman had killed 45 more people between 1975 and 1998.
Smith said she had "no clear conclusion" about Shipman's motive. In only one
case was there evidence that he killed for money, and there was "no suggestion
of any form of sexual depravity," she said.
"It is possible that he was addicted to killing," the judge said.
Some victims' relatives said they didn't think they'd ever know what motivated
him.
"It's the eternal question -- Why? Why did he do it?" said Jane Ashton-Hibbert,
whose 81-year-old grandmother was among the doctor's victims. "There's been far
too many questions and not enough answers."
Shipman, 56, was convicted in January 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients --
all elderly women -- by injecting them with heroin. But police said then that he
may have killed scores more. He is already serving 15 life sentences with no
possibility of parole, and prosecutors have ruled out further trials.
Shipman maintained his innocence, and no motive has been established for the
crimes of which he was convicted.
He was liked and admired by those who new him in Hyde, a small community in
northern England.
"I personally can't reconcile the doctor that I knew that came to deliver my
sister, looked after me when I had my daughter, with the doctor that I know
now," Ashton-Hibbert said. "I think that's the hardest thing, ... the betrayal
of trust."
Smith's yearlong inquiry has investigated the deaths of 494 of Shipman's
patients between 1974 and 1998. It found that at least 215 of them were killed
by Shipman, most of them by lethal injection.
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