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Feb 1, 2000 · Dr Harold Shipman was found guilty of 15 counts of murder and one count of forgery on 31 January 1999. Below is a selection of some of the key pictures illustrating the case. Click here to...
The Shipman saga draws to a close. The killer was found hanging in his cell in Wakefield Prison at 0620 GMT by staff who tried to revive him. He was pronounced dead at 0810 GMT.
Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 284 victims over a period of roughly 30 years.
Jan 13, 2004 · The death of Harold Shipman, found hanged in his cell at Wakefield high security jail in West Yorkshire, brings to an end one of the blackest chapters of British criminal history. When the...
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Harold Shipman is a former GP and prolific serial killer who murdered approximately 250 victims, most of whom were elderly women. In 2000, he was found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care and one count of forgery, resulting in his imprisonment for life with the recommendation that he never be released. Born in Nottingham in 1946, Sh...
Shipman was accused of killing 15 elderly patients in 1999, although he's believed to have killed approximately 250, making him one of the most prolific serial killers Britain has ever seen. According to the Shipman Inquiry, which took place in 2002, Deborah Massey, who worked at Frank Massey and Sons funeral parlour, raised the alarm in March 1998...
In 2000, Shipman was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he never be released and struck off by the General Medical Council. He was originally incarcerated in a Manchester prison, but moved to HMP Frankland in Durham and eventually to Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire. He took his own life in January 2004, the day before his ...
1946: Harold Shipman is born in Nottingham. 1970: Shipman graduates from Leeds University and starts working at Pontefract General Infirmary. 1974: He begins working as a general practitioner (GP) in Todmorden, Lancashire however, colleagues discover that he was addicted to painkiller pethidine and was forging prescriptions of the drug. He's fined ...
Dec 1, 2014 · BBC Scotland. The medical world was shattered when trusted GP Harold Shipman was exposed as a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of up to 215 patients. Shipman killed himself in 2004 -...
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Oct 1, 2020 · The murderous doctor Harold Shipman’s heartless reaction to being shown images of his victims has been revealed in a new BBC documentary. The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime has been...
