German nurse killed over 30 patients with lethal poison for thrills – says he is sorry

#oldenburg #lethaldose #resuscitation #patients A 38-year-old male nurse of Delmenhorst clinic, near Oldenburg, is on trial for having killed over 30 patients with lethal dose of poison in the intensive care unit between 2003 and 2005 as reported in zeenews.india.com dated 19 February 2015. He has admitted that he killed for thrills.
His activities came to light when a colleague caught him as he was in the act of injecting patients in 2005 and, in the first trial in Oldenburg, a district court in 2008, he was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for attempted murder – he has, since then, been in detention since.
By his own admission, his motive was to spark medical emergencies so that he could then demonstrate his resuscitation skills. Moreover, he also acted out of boredom. He was seeking thrills to release built up tensions and he felt on top of the world when he managed to resuscitate whom he had administered the lethal dose.
He felt devastated when he failed and, with each failure, he vowed never to play his lethal game again, but this determination was always short-lived.

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