Was Harold Shipman a good doctor? How smart was Harold Shipman?

Harold Shipman was reportedly a good doctor from all indications, the more reason it was difficult for the anyone to suspect his dastardly acts in the first place.

How smart was Harold Shipman?

Shipman had an IQ of 140.

Who Was Harold Shipman?

Harold Shipman was a British medical doctor known for committing one of the highest number of murders in modern history.

Shipman had killed about 250 patients, even though he was convicted for only 15 cases.

He had murdered his victims by “prescribing a fatal dose of drugs.”

As a result, Shipman earned the nickname “Dr. Death” and “The Angel of Death”.

Shipman had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and was the only British doctor to have been convicted of hospital patient murder.

An investigative panel called “the Shipman Inquiry” was set up to examine Shipman’s crimes. The investigations revealed that Shipman targeted vulnerable elderly people who trusted him as their doctor.

After Shipman’s death, The Shipman Inquiry, further disclosed that the killer doctor had murdered 218 of his victims between 1975 and 1998, at a time he practised in Todmorden and Hyde, with majority of his victims being elderly women in good health.

Shipman died by suicide after he hanged himself in his prison cell at HM Prison Wakefield at 6:20 a.m. on 13 January 2004.

He was aged 57.

Reports from the Prison Service showed that he had “hanged himself from the window bars of his cell with his bed sheets.”