How many years was Harold Shipman sentenced to? Who was the youngest Shipman victim?

Harold Shipman had been sentenced to life imprisonment for committing countless murders by “prescribing a fatal dose of drugs.”

Who was the youngest Shipman victim?

Shipman’s youngest victim was 41-year old Peter Lewis and the oldest was 93-yearbold Ann Cooper.

It was gathered that 171 of Shipman’s victims were women and 44 were men.

Who Was Harold Shipman?

Harold Shipman was an English medical practitioner and one of the worst serial killers in modern history, who murdered about 250 patients, although he was convicted for only 15.

Shipman had been sentenced to life imprisonment before he committed suicide. He was the only British doctor to have been convicted of hospital patient murder.

The Shipman Inquiry which was an investigative panel set up to examine Shipman’s crimes, disclosed that Shipman targeted vulnerable elderly people who trusted him as their doctor.

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

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.