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| Harold Shipman (Reuters) |
On this day, 15 years ago, a doctor's report on the case of serial killer revealed. According to the report, the former GP Harold Shipman has killed more than 300 patients.
He dubbed Britain's most deadly serial killers this century. The report came from the Greater Manchester Family Doctor, who has recorded more than 297 deaths throughout 24-year career.
A statistical audit discovered during the 1974- to 1998 there were 236 deaths of his patients at home practice. Figures remarkable than his colleagues.
The report was requested by the Minister of Health, Alan Milburn after hearing confession Shipman in early January 2000 that he had injected the patient died 15 elderly women. The clinical audit leader Shipman was Richard Baker of the University of Leicester. The result was he handed over to the police and the public prosecutor's office.
"I understand a lot of questions about the report, among others, from the families whose relatives were killed at the hands of Shipman," said Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, as described by the Guardian.
Shipman killed his victims in the practice room where they were not accompanied by relatives when the check himself. He injected a massive dose of diamorphine. According to Baker, deaths from diamorphine in the practice room Shipman escaped the initial examination.
According to the report, since 1985 to 1998, there were clear information from 288 of the total 324 deaths were death certificates signed by Shipman. Baker said more than 57 percent of the death certificates suspicious.
The death of a patient, who died slowly, there are 49 hours in advance of their joint Shipman. Compare with other general practitioners minimal them with the patient 88 hours earlier.
Baker gave an example of a death certificate on cremation officer. One of them really mencengagkan.
"He wrote, 'the patient comes into the office, make a diagnosis, immediately call an ambulance, the patient has died when they come," Baker said on the report.
Trauma Death of Mother?
80 percent of patients who killed an elderly woman. The rest of men, the youngest was 41 years old. Born with the name Harold Frederick Shipman on January 14, 1946 from middle-class workers.
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| Harold Shipman Sketch (Reuters) |
Smart kid and interested in the world of medicine. He managed to enter the medical faculty of the University of Leeds and graduated with riveting.
Childhood to adolescence was spent with the sight of the mother receiving injections of morphine to reduce lung cancer pain. The mother had to die slowly from these cancers. At the very young age of 43 years. Seeing the mother dies, 17-year-old teenager in tears, ran out of the house in the middle of the pouring rain.
Is this what the motive he killed elderly women?
But clearly, the reason he killed his patients frustrating investigators and psychiatrist mental examiner. Some say he suffered over the death of his mother, others argue it was the practice of euthanasia, reducing the number of very elderly population imposes the British health system.
"He had a remarkable survival mechanisms of the reality of life," said a doctor who was part of a team of investigators to the BBC, January 5, 2001 last.
"He found a way to cover up his actions, and experience so personal and private kill him. He did not want to share the secret,"
However, until now unanswered. He hanged himself in prison two years after a judge hammer tap life sentence for him.
