How was Harold Shipman discovered? What are some interesting facts about Harold Shipman?

Harold Shipman was discovered after he became the “only beneficiary of the will of late Katherine Grundy who died after Shipman visited her.”

Grundy had been healthy but suddenly died. This rose suspicion that led to the investigation that Shipman had murdered her by using diamorphine.

What are some interesting facts about Harold Shipman?

Shipman played rugby while growing up, his mother’s death from lung cancer had affected him psychologically, and he met his wife on a double decker at Leeds University.

About Harold Shipman

Harold Shipman was a medical doctor who turned serial killer during his profession, and was convicted for 15 murders, even though he murdered up to 250 patients.

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

As a result, he 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 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 died by suicide, after he hanged himself in his prison cell, at HM Prison Wakefield at 6:20 a.m. on 13 January 2004, at the age of 57.

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.