Harold Shipman (1946-2004) Doctor Death

[@hazelwalsh3269]

Wouldn’t have been caught if he hadn’t typed that dodgy Will! Scary!

[@racheldemain1940]

He hadn't bargained on Kathleen Grundy's Solicitor Daughter!!

[@arlenenoone]

Yep, apparently suspicions were aroused before when another GP queried the number of cremation forms they had to sign for Shipman.. but that enquiry found nothing

[@iMattC]

Oh yes he would have.

[@sarahgartner253]

This is an extremely well reported case. Excellently outlined and investigated

[@aziznaji7130]

I was living in Preston city for 6 years just right next to The Crown Court. Sometimes a swat of police officers block the road to bring convicted killers to the court.

[@theofielden9121]

He started killing in my town of todmorden

[@mauriceupton1474]

Pure greed, he murdered them for their money.... the love of money is the root of all evil.

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

He did not murder them for their money. His final victim was the only one of an estimated 250 victims in which he attempted to forge a will. It was why he was caught. He spent decades killing hundreds of people just for the sake of killing them.

[@mauriceupton1474]

@@streamsofconsciousness8651 he probably got away with it numerous times, if it hadn't been for the old lady's daughter and her being a legal secretary and very thorough, executors of the wills would be none-the-wiser.

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

Maurice Upton there was a full public enquiry into him and his victims which found no evidence of any financial motive for his crimes. No other families or executors reported that victims had made him beneficiaries of their wills. He was a very bad person but we don’t need to imagine reasons that dont exist

[@sebfragomeni6082]

He's pretty dumb for not knowing the computer would keep track of when the documents were created.

[@kevin6293]

I think he’s a lot dummer for thinking his last victim’s family would let him steal £300,000 from them.

[@arlenenoone]

And dumber again using diamorphine.. surely he'd know that that stays in the system for a long time. Apparently if he had of used something like insulin instead, there would be no traces of it in the body.

[@zeddeka]

This is the world of a delusional narcissist like shipman was. They live in a dream world where they think they're more intelligent than anyone else and nobody is ever going to catch them.

[@CCCP8888]

Doctors should NOT be allowed to prescribe or administer substances that are NOT NORMALLY potable.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Good that this report has been preserved. HOW could a drug addict be allowed to set up a GP practice? Someone allowed a deranged person to be elevated to a position where he had the power over life and death. Beyond belief that such a thing could happen. Why did no one else follow him into prison?

[@averageillegalmemesdealer]

Drug addicts are not immediately psychotic serial killers. That's like saying all people who drink too much are immediately abusive tank-top-creaming wifebeaters.

[@portcullis5622]

@@averageillegalmemesdealer Yes, but in the mid-1970s, he was convicted on multiple counts of forging prescriptions to feed his pethodine addiction. He was dishonest, untrustworthy and should have been struck off even before he had chance to start killing his patients.

[@Harris.S]

Life must means Life

[@georgepollen7927]

He should have been hung!

[@zeddeka]

There's a separate "whole of life" tariff for that

[@zeddeka]

​@@georgepollen7927what do you mean, he should have been hung? He hung himself.

[@himarkburdett9378]

People like Shipman Ian Brady and Maura Henley should not have been cremated they should have been pushed through the sausage machine and then fed to wild boar

[@sint0xicateme]

5:34 why does she look so pleased with herself? Her mother died!

[@hhhfff7953]

Because she proved him wrong, you dumb bitch.

[@googlecastemail1331]

Bolsheviki because she got justice for her mother and the other poor people that shipman killed!

[@Vic35102]

Poor Angela she died from outside Alzheimer's In the end But one thing she must know that she did her mum proud

[@olliewilson7622]

This guy is my mates great uncle absolutely mad

[@commanderwaffle]

r/thathappened

[@ameliamansfield2423]

he killed my great uncle

[@subbookkeeper]

Actor Mandy Patinkin would be my choice for cast in a movie about dr Shipman.

[@Vic35102]

This man did it for only one reason power he wanted to play God he knew he could pick away with it because people trusted him because he was under the disguise of a caring doctor

[@Vic35102]

Look how yong huge Edwards Looks

[@mrpass5223]

4:48

[@ramji0905]

Medical Maniac

[@nvstewart]

There is a doctor death in every area where there is a GP. There was a doctor in the town over from us nicknamed doctor death, that is because we know that person and we think that 'doctor deaths' are rare, they are not, they are accidental deaths caused by mistakes and do not represent REAL doctor deaths (Harold Shipman). The medicine industry is very complicated, because of this, doctors have to be immune to some deaths. There could be two different conditions with very similar/identical symptoms, only to find later that the doctor gave them the wrong drug and ended up killing that person. It happens. You can find for the UK statistics of how many people die by GPs per county, some are in the double figures (not double figures per GP, just per county which will hold many GPs). It is the unusually high ones that will be investigated. People also die all the times in hospitals because of the same issues, and even in the operating theater when a surgeon makes a mistake. It has taken thousands of years to get to where we are today in the medicine department, and there is so much that we still do not know, so the occasional accidental death is to be expected.

[@zeddeka]

Shipman's weren't accidental deaths

[@nvstewart]

@@zeddeka I never said they were...