Nurse arrested over 4 deaths in Leeds Hospital
13/10/2005
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Stephanie, Cheshire
A male nurse has been charged with the murder of four patients at two Leeds hospitals.
The nurse is alleged to have given the patients all aged over 75 large doses of insulin. Three of the patients are from Leeds General Infirmary and one from St James'. The charges follow a large inquiry in which police examined more than 70 deaths.
The police were called in by Hospital Management at LGI when Ethel Hall, 88, deteriorated suddenly following a hip operation. High levels of insulin were found in her blood despite the fact that she was not a diabetic.
A spokesperson for Alexander Harris said: "The family were very distressed when they found out that their mother may not have died naturally as they had initially thought. Ethel was a fit 86-year-old who was recovering from an operation to pin a broken hip joint. Both the family and the doctors were baffled by her unexpected decline especially as she was about to come home from hospital. They just want to know what happened."
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