What did Harold Shipman do to his patients? How did Dr Harold Shipman get caught?

Harold Shipman was said to inject his patients with a lethal dose of diamorphine, after which he would sign a death certificate that the patient had died of natural causes.

How did Dr Harold Shipman get caught?

Shipman was caught after the death of late Katherine Grundy rose suspicion.

Grundy had been healthy but suddenly died after Shipman visited her.

Further investigations reveal that Shipman had murdered her by using diamorphine.

Harold Shipman Life And Death

Harold Shipman obtained his medical degree from Leeds University, and went on to work at Todmorden in Lancashire.

Shipman took interest in medicine practice after he witnessed his mother take injections to ease her pain from the lung cancer she suffered.

However, Shipman moved from being a medical practitioner to one of the worst serial killers in modern history.

Shipman had a history of murdering about 250 of his patients, although he was convicted for only 15. As a result, he earned the nickname”Dr. Death” and “The Angel of Death”.

Shipman had been sentenced to life imprisonment and became the only British doctor to have been convicted of murdering his patients.

The Shipman Inquiry which was an investigative panel set up to examine Shipman’s crimes, disclosed that majority of Shipman’s victims were elderly women in good health.

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