05.11.2025 18:00
A male nurse who killed 10 patients by administering lethal doses of medication to do less work during his shifts in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison. It was determined that the suspect injected critically ill patients with lethal doses of sedatives and painkillers from December 2023 to May 2024.
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A nurse on trial for killing 10 people at a hospital in the city of Würselen near Aachen, Germany, has been sentenced to life in prison.
10 MURDERS, 27 ATTEMPTS OF MURDER
The Aachen State Court ruled in the case of the 44-year-old male nurse, who was charged with 10 murders and 27 attempts of murder.
ADMINISTERED LETHAL DOSES OF PAIN RELIEVERS AND SEDATIVES
According to a report by the German News Agency DPA, the court found that the nurse injected lethal doses of sedatives and pain relievers to terminally ill patients in the palliative care unit from December 2023 to May 2024, sentencing him to life in prison for 10 murders and 27 attempts of murder.
KILLED TO DO LESS WORK
The indictment stated that the nurse administered sedatives to patients during the night shift to do as little work as possible. The nurse denied the charges during the trial, claiming that he did not administer medication with the intention of shortening the patients' lives.
Defense attorneys requested the release of the defendant, while the prosecution demanded a life sentence.
The Aachen Prosecutor's Office announced that another case could be opened against the defendant based on the possibility that the nurse may have committed other crimes. In this context, it was noted that a series of other suspicious incidents from the nurse's previous professional life were being investigated.
NURSE MURDERS IN GERMANY
The most significant series of murders involving nurses in Germany's recent history occurred in the state of Lower Saxony. Former nurse Niels Högel was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for 85 murders in a case where he was accused of killing 100 of his patients between 2002 and 2005. During the court proceedings, Högel confessed to 43 incidents and apologized to the relatives of the patients. It was stated that Högel tried to appear heroic in the eyes of his colleagues by injecting medications into terminally ill patients and then attempting to revive them, during which many of the patients died.
Högel was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 for killing 2 patients in another case.
Source: İHA, DHA
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