biography
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Shipman, Harold (Frederick)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1946– )
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| biography:
| Doctor and serial murderer, born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He studied at Leeds University (1965–70), worked at Pontefract General Infirmary, then became a GP in Todmorden. Fined for making out drug prescriptions to himself (to feed a pethadine addiction), he received treatment, and became a GP again in Hyde, Greater Manchester. After falling out with his partners, he set up his own practice. Arrested in 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2000 for the murder of 15 of his elderly patients by injecting them with diamorphine. A public inquiry reported in July 2002 that there had been 215 victims in all, dating from 1975, with another 45 likely, and a further 38 uncertain, making him Britain's worst ever serial killer. All the killings were carried out by injecting drugs, usually at a patient's home, but sometimes at his own surgery. No clear conclusion was reached about his motivation. |
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