German nurse gets a lifer after killing 200 patients

German nurse gets a lifer after killing 200 patients
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German nurse gets a lifer after killing 200 patients A male nurse better known as Niels-H built in an infamous reputation for killing 200 patients in 30 German Hospitals as he injected lethal doses of heart drug in them.

A male nurse better known as Niels-H built in an infamous reputation for killing 200 patients in 30 German Hospitals as he injected lethal doses of heart drug in them. The 38 year old who was jailed for life by a German Court on Thursday claimed that he was the greatest serial killer in the post-war history.


Nicknamed as the ‘Death Nurse’, he was sentenced for a life term after admitting to secretly killing at least 30 Hospital patients.


‘Niels H’ case is considered as the country's worst serial murder from the time of the Second World War and was convicted of murder along with causing grievous bodily harm in a series of hospital killings claiming nearly 200 lives.


Niels H from 2003 worked at a clinic as an orderly in the town of Delmenhorst in Lower Saxony until 2005. He admitted to killing at least 30 patients secretly in the hospital's intensive care unit during his trial by injecting them with lethal doses of a heart drug.


The ‘Death Nurse’ claimed that he crept up secretly on patients in the intensive care unit and injected them with a heart drug ‘Ajmalin’ that can cause dramatic blood pressure loss, palpations and death. He also told the court he injected 90 patients with the dug between 2003 and 2005.

He was caught by his colleagues as he was secretly injecting a patient with the heart drug in 2005 and saved the patient's life. Arresting Niels H, he was convicted for seven and half years in 2008.


Suspicions were raised by relatives of recently deceased Delmenhorst clinic patients after his 2008 conviction. Ordering the exhumation of eight bodies, investigators launched an inquiry. The hospital records of 200 more patients are being investigated where Niels H had worked said the Police.

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