While Colin Norris of Egilsay Terrace, Glasgow in the Scotland area of Great Britain denied killing his patience, he was found guilty of murdering four elderly women in his care. He was also given the conviction of trying to murder another patient.
Norris is charged of killing the women back in 2002 by injecting them with insulin. The family of Ethel Hall, one of Norris’ victims had called for an investigation. Suspicious about Norris sparked when he had predicted the death of Ethel Hall. Before the prediction, Hall had fallenl into a fatal coma.
Hall who was 86 at the time of her death had just got done with hip surgery was recovering at Leeds General Infirmary. However, it was discovered that Hall’s insulin level was 12 times more than the normal amount.
The prosecution accused Norris of giving her those insulin injections.
After that, the police investigated the deaths of Norris’ three other patients: 80 year old Doris Ludlum, 88 year old Bridget Bourke, and 79 year old Irene Crooks. All three of them also fell into comas while under the care of Colin Norris.
Stuart Hall, the son of Ethel Hall said he was happy with the verdict.
He would say: “I just hope that he isn’t let out so he can do it again.
“I would like an inquiry to find out what mistakes were made, what the trust could have done to the better and what they have done to rectify it so it can’t happen again.”
Norris sentencing will be on Tuesday, March 4.
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