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Nurse from hell admits to killing 100 patients
A former nurse in Germany who is standing trial has admitted that he intentionally killed no less than a 100 patients in what is termed the biggest serial killing case in the country since post-war history.
The ex-nurse accused of killing 100 patients in his care admitted to the murders on the first day of his trial and had earlier admitted to deliberately injecting patients at two clinics in northern Germany with deadly drugs.
Asked by the presiding judge at the court in the northern city of Oldenburg whether the charges against him were accurate, the accused Niels Hoegel replied, “Yes.”
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“What I have admitted took place,” the 41-year-old told the courtroom crowded with dozens of grieving relatives.
Hoegel has already spent nearly a decade in prison on a life term for other patient deaths, and is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he could bring them back to life at the last moment.
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