Nurse in Germany admits killing 30 patients with overdose

A former nurse in Germany has admitted to killing about 30 patients, and nearly taking the lives of an additional 60 people with drug overdoses. A court-appointed psychologist testified in the northwestern city of Oldenburg on Thursday that the male nurse used overdoses of a cardiac drug on “about 30” seriously ill people at Delmenhorst Hospital from 2003 to 2005. Another 60 people survived the injections, the court heard.

The 38-year-old’s motive was to recklessly create intensive-care emergencies where he could impress and win gratitude for saving people from the brink of death, prosecutors said. He stands trial in only three killings to make the case easier to prove, prosecutors added. The unidentified defendant insisted that he had not killed anyone at other hospitals during his career, or while he had worked as an ambulance crewman.

He is charged with three murders and two attempted murders at a trial that began last year. The former nurse is already serving seven and a half years in prison on a 2008 conviction for attempted murder. In 2005, a colleague saw him injecting a patient in intensive care with an overdose.

Culled from Presstv