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A nurse was sentenced to life in prison in Germany for killing 85 patients, the verdict became final on Friday, writes MTI.
The federal supreme court rejected requests for review of the June 2019 sentence in one of the largest serial homicide cases in German forensic history, leaving the former nurse identified by authorities as Niels H. not to be released until June end of his life.
The 43-year-old man killed 62 patients at Oldenburg Hospital in Lower Saxony and 35 other patients at Delmenhorst Hospital, also in Lower Saxony. He worked in the intensive care unit of both institutions, causing cardiac death by overdose of various drugs to his victims to prove his knowledge in the field of resuscitation. According to the investigative data presented in the lawsuit, he tried to focus on these emergencies, he wanted recognition. Resuscitation failed in many cases, which means the nurse killed the patient.
Niels H. committed the crimes between 2000 and 2005. The nurse collapsed in 2005 when a colleague in the Delmenhorst Clinic’s intensive care unit caught him giving a patient a lethal injection and turning off a vital medication delivery device.
He was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in another case in 2015 on two counts of murder and two attempted murder. Under pressure from the victims’ families, all workplace deaths were investigated, during which 134 bodies were exhumed.
The nurse may be responsible for the deaths of many more people because many corpses were cremated, making it impossible to conduct an investigation for traces of drug overdose.
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