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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:31 PM Aug 2017

German nurse suspected of murdering at least 90 patients

Source: The Guardian

German nurse suspected of murdering at least 90 patients

Police say they have found evidence that Niels Högel, who was jailed for killing two patients, murdered more with lethal drug

Philip Oltermann in Berlin
Monday 28 August 2017 11.40 BST

At least 90 people were killed at the hands of a German nurse who injected patients with cardiovascular medication in order to show off his resuscitation skills, a three-year police investigation has found.

Niels Högel, 40, was jailed for life in February 2015 for two murders and several attempted murders of intensive care patients at Delmenhorst hospital in northern Germany.

But police have found evidence of another 88 murders after analysing scores of patient files and exhuming more than 130 bodies in Germany, Poland and Turkey, starting during his employment at another hospital and continuing after he was caught in the act by a colleague.

Since several of Högel’s patients were cremated, police said the real figure could be higher.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/german-nurse-niels-hoegel-suspected-murdering-90-patients
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