Nurse convicted of murder of two patients by lethal injection
19/04/2006
A male staff nurse at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxon has been convicted of the murder of two patients.
The
nurse - Benjamin Geen injected the patients with a muscle relaxant
which would send them into a coma, from which they would have to be
resuscitated.
The nurse put fifteen patients into a coma, poisoning them which caused them to stop breathing.
The patients were mostly elderly, and included stroke victims.
The
nurse was discovered when doctors struggled to explain the abnormally
high level of respiratory arrests between December 2003 and February
2004, and it emerged that all the resuscitations had taken place while
he was on duty.
When arrested at the hospital on 9 February,
2004, police found a syringe loaded with a potentially lethal muscle
relaxant in his pocket.
An investigation was held by Thames
Valley Police, culminating in a trial at Oxford Crown Court where Geen
was found guilty of two counts of murder, and fifteen other lesser
charges.
Alexander Harris acted for the families of a number of
victims of nurse serial killer Beverley Allitt and over 200 families of
victims of serial killer Harold Shipman.
"This is a terrible
tragedy. We need to ensure that doctors and nurses are much more
strictly regulated and monitored to prevent tragedies of this kind
occurring. I am very sorry for the families involved and offer them my
deepest sympathy at what must be a harrowing time for them," said a
spokesperson for Alexander Harris, the law firm who represented
families of victims of Allitt and Shipman.
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