"The psychiatrists say that it is not uncommon for serial killers to be detected because they draw attention to themselves in an obvious way. "By June (1998), it must have appeared to him that any suspicions entertained in March had been allayed. He had got away with so many killings and was still idolised by many of his patients. "It is possible that he had begun to think he was untouchable. If he did, he had lost touch with reality. "The psychiatrists find it hard to believe that Shipman really thought he could get away with forging the will and killing the testator. The Shipman Inquiry considered the possibility that Harold Shipman wanted to be caught when he took his last victim, Kathleen Grundy.ĭame Janet Smith wrote in Death Disguised: "Shipman's forgery of Mrs Grundy's will was hopelessly incompetent and the arrangements he made for its delivery were bound to excite suspicion. Harold Shipman arriving at Ashton-under-Lyne (Image: Manchester Evening News) The Shipman Inquiry, a two-year-long investigation of all deaths certified by Shipman, identified 218 victims and estimated his total victim count between 19 could have been around 250. Nurse still haunted by night shift she spent with serial killer doctor Harold Shipman in 1970s.Shipman continued working as a GP in Hyde throughout the 1980s and began his own surgery at 21 Market Street in 1993, becoming a respected member of the community. He became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde near Manchester, in 1977. He was fined £600 and briefly attended a drug rehabilitation clinic in York. In 1975, he was caught forging prescriptions of pethidine (Demerol) for his own use. He started working at Pontefract General Infirmary in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1974 took his first position as a GP at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. But a two-year-long investigation of all deaths certified by Shipman identified the total count could have been many more.īorn in Nottingham, Shipman studied medicine at Leeds School of Medicine and graduated in 1970. On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders for killing patients under his care.
GP Harold Shipman was a British general practitioner and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.
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