Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman was a well-known and respected GP who is suspected of killing more than 250 of his own patients.
Harold was born on the 14th of January 1946 in Nottingham. He was born into a working class family and attended High Pavement grammar school as a happy, young, confident individual. When Harold turned 17, this is the very first time he identified the kind of responsibility and power that doctors had over their patients, as he watched them administrate the drugs that took the pain away from his dying mother. Shipman was then inspired to become a doctor and went on to study medicine at Leeds University. However his life was far from easy when he found out that his 17 year old girlfriend, Primrose, was pregnant. Primrose kept the baby and in 1966 they married and together had 4 children.
In 1974 Harold was working as a GP but his colleagues had noticed he was beginning to have blackouts, this was due to his addiction to a morphine-like drug that he was prescribing himself. He was then fired and given a large fine.
After conflicts with partners, he then set up on his own and his wife, Primrose, became part-time receptionist. The practice quickly became popular and attracted a lot of patients.
In 1998 Harold's life changed forever when he was charged with the murder of Kathleen Grundy, aged 81. As this investigation led the police further and further, they then started to uncover more and more murders and held exhumations at night witnessed by a priest. They found 9 bodies, all females, whom were aged 49-81.
Police started to suspect things weren't right when Mrs.Grundy's will left nothing to her children, and instead it was stated her money and estate was left to Harold Shipman.
Shipman produced death certificates for all of his victims, giving them a suitable reason for their death. He killed most of his patients by prescribing them an overdose of a lethal painkiller. In some cases he would then alter their will, as he did with Mrs.Grundy, leaving all their possessions to him. Harold was taken to court and was found guilty of the murder of 7 men and 5 women.
150 further prescriptions were then investigated and it is thought that Harold, could have in fact killed thousands of his own patients!!!!!
Harold was born on the 14th of January 1946 in Nottingham. He was born into a working class family and attended High Pavement grammar school as a happy, young, confident individual. When Harold turned 17, this is the very first time he identified the kind of responsibility and power that doctors had over their patients, as he watched them administrate the drugs that took the pain away from his dying mother. Shipman was then inspired to become a doctor and went on to study medicine at Leeds University. However his life was far from easy when he found out that his 17 year old girlfriend, Primrose, was pregnant. Primrose kept the baby and in 1966 they married and together had 4 children.
In 1974 Harold was working as a GP but his colleagues had noticed he was beginning to have blackouts, this was due to his addiction to a morphine-like drug that he was prescribing himself. He was then fired and given a large fine.
After conflicts with partners, he then set up on his own and his wife, Primrose, became part-time receptionist. The practice quickly became popular and attracted a lot of patients.
In 1998 Harold's life changed forever when he was charged with the murder of Kathleen Grundy, aged 81. As this investigation led the police further and further, they then started to uncover more and more murders and held exhumations at night witnessed by a priest. They found 9 bodies, all females, whom were aged 49-81.
Police started to suspect things weren't right when Mrs.Grundy's will left nothing to her children, and instead it was stated her money and estate was left to Harold Shipman.
Shipman produced death certificates for all of his victims, giving them a suitable reason for their death. He killed most of his patients by prescribing them an overdose of a lethal painkiller. In some cases he would then alter their will, as he did with Mrs.Grundy, leaving all their possessions to him. Harold was taken to court and was found guilty of the murder of 7 men and 5 women.
150 further prescriptions were then investigated and it is thought that Harold, could have in fact killed thousands of his own patients!!!!!