Serial killer and former nurse Niels Hoegel has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for murdering 85 patients.
Serial killer Niels Hoegel has been sentenced to life in prison after a German court found him guilty of murdering 85 patients while working as a hospital nurse.
The 42-year-old former nurse was found guilty of injecting potentially lethal doses of medication to induce cardiac arrest in the patient so he could then try to resuscitate them.
Hoegel worked at Oldenburg hospital between 1999 and 2002, then nearby Delmenhurst from 2003 to 2005, with the murders occurring between 2000 and 2005 at both hospitals.
His lethal activities only ended when a fellow nurse caught him injecting a patient with the wrong medication.
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