Harold Shipman death cause: What is Harold Shipman cause of death?

British serial killer Harold 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.”

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.

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

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.