Over those 19 months, he committed 13 known murders-crimes that included vicious sexual assaults and bizarre stagings of the victims' bodies. In a joint statement, they said: "We are pleased with today's verdict, which brings to an end a lengthy investigation, which has been like a black cloud hanging over us for five long years. There might also have been a culture of allowing the nurses, like Ben, to administer drugs to patients that only the doctors should have administered.

The police investigation highlighted that results of blood gas analysers written in the clinical notes did not match data held on Radiance (part of the electronic patient record). Mrs Bourke's body was exhumed, but Mrs Ludlam and Mrs Crookes were cremated, giving detectives no scope for testing. Looking at all the evidence, all I can say is I think Colin Norris’s conviction is unsafe,” Prof Marks said. On January 11,2001, while studying at Dundee University, he attended a lecture by his tutor, Dr Isabella McLafferty, about the abuse of elderly patients. Branded as "extremely arrogant" by Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg, who led the investigation into his crimes, Norris felt untouchable.They start looking at other seemingly similar recent cases and they let their minds fall back to other odd things which happened in recent months and stuck in their minds. The convictions were upheld at appeal in October 2000, but overturned in a second appeal in January 2003, after it emerged that Dr Alan Williams, the prosecution forensic pathologist who examined both of her babies, had incompetently failed to disclose microbiological reports that suggested the second of her sons had died of natural causes. I will never forget hoe the pt who died from a supposed insulin overdose, she did not have a peaceful death, I also think after reading your book that she was crazy.

To deal with the stress of attending the dying, she, like many other intensive care nurses, sometimes indulges in gallows humor. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Colleagues of McTavish told the court how they had witnessed her inject a patient with an entirely unnecessary dose of phenobarbitone and then make no record of the injection, and that she had said at the time, "Doctor likes them to go quietly". Hospital patients said to have been killed or poisoned by a “thrill-seeking” nurse may have died or collapsed as a result of natural causes, fresh evidence suggests.Colin Campbell Norris (12 February 1976, Glasgow) is a nurse from the Milton area in Glasgow, Scotland who was convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds, England, in 2002. I agree with your view on the “politics” behind incidences of death in the medical arena; that there is a culture endorsing collective lying. Join true-crime experts, Rabia Chaudry and Ellyn Marsh, along with special celebrity guests as they break down their favorite true crime cases. But a source close to the inquiry said: "I'm sure the seed of the idea for murder was planted during lectures and nursing training in Dundee, when he would have found out that insulin is the perfect homicidal agent because it leaves the blood very quickly.