Possible additional victims horror nurse Niels

In 27 of 99 unearthed deceased patients of the hospital Delmenhorst remains of a heart drug discovered, said police chief Johann Kühme Oldenburg Wednesday.

According to him, Niels H. responsible for the deaths of several people in the hospital in Oldenburg. The study goes even further. ,, We assume that the real number of victims of Niels H. is much higher, '' a police spokesman added.

The former nurse was February last year in court for the death of thirty patients he would have injected an overdose of heart medication. The now 39-year-old finally got a life sentence for two murders, two attempted murders and inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Red-handed
H. would have committed the murders during the years he worked in the intensive care unit of a hospital near Bremen. In this section die between 2003 and 2005 suddenly 200 people, more than two times as much as other years. The increase is striking, but no one can initially explain what's going on.

That changed on June 22, 2005. A nurse stumbles into a room where Niels H. has just administered a needle with an overdose of medication to a terminally ill cancer patient. The 63-year-old woman gets such severe arrhythmias that she almost dies. The nurse was able to narrowly avoid and tells her story to the police.

No one likes there are to be charged in the hospital note that H. also could be responsible for many of the other enigmatic deaths. It is even very doubtful whether H. guilty. The disqualification of five years he fights in any case successfully and he can just get to work at another hospital. Only in 2008 a judge condemns him to a sentence of 7.5 years for attempted murder of 63-year-old woman.

In that lawsuit is so much information to top the German justice it does not let down. The investigation is reopened. It appears that a striking number of drugs are used to induce arrhythmias when H is at work. H. also often appears to work when there are people dying in the department. Investigators allow eight patients dig and find five bodies traces of the drug.

Psychiatrist
Niels H., who still stuck, again indicted in 2014. According to prosecutor he has five patients given an overdose. Three of them did not survive it. H. denies everything, but yesterday that he has been a revelation in an interview with a psychiatrist. Not three, but thirty people, according to H. deceased after an overdose. In total he injected ninety people, he explains. The others survive the overdose after resuscitation.

Also against inmates H. story would have confessed. One of them stated that H. said he had stopped counting fifty dead 'at. Justice is nonetheless surprised by the striking H. statement to the psychiatrist. A special commission investigates what is where.

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