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Colin Norris is a Scottish nurse and convicted serial killer from the Milton area in Glasgow who was found guilty of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds, England, in 2002.
Crimes
Norris worked at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital. Suspicions were raised when Norris predicted the death of one patient, Ethel Halls, saying she would die at 5:15 a.m. She did. He stated at the time: "it is always in the morning when thing go wrong".[1] When questioned by police about this and three other patients who had died while he was on duty, he said "he seemed to have been unlucky over the last 12 months".[1] The four patients were 79, 80, 86 and 88 years old.[2] The police investigated 72 cases in total.[2]
Trial
The trial took 19 weeks and the jury deliberated for 4 days. Norris was convicted on 3 March, 2008 of the murder of four women, and the attempted murder of a fifth aged 90.[3] He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and ordered to serve a minimum term of 30 years in prison the following day.[4] Judge Mr Justice Griffith rejected any possibility that Norris was practicing euthanasia because none of the victims were terminally ill.[2] He told Norris when sentencing:
"You are, I have absolutely no doubt, a thoroughly evil and dangerous man. You are an arrogant and manipulative man with a real dislike of elderly patients. The most telling evidence was that observation of one of your patients, Bridget Tarpey, who said 'he did not like us old women'."[2]
Referred to in the British press as the "Angel of Death", Norris killed his victims by injecting them with high levels of insulin.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Tom Chivers (2008-03-03). "Colin Norris, 'Angel of Death' nurse, convicted". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ a b c d http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3481873.ece
- ^ "Nurse guilty of killing patients". BBC News. 2008-03-03. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "Killer nurse must serve 30 years". BBC News. 2008-03-04. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
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