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Former nurse Niels Hoegel pictured in 2018. Photograph: Mohssen Assanimoghaddam/AFP/Getty Images
German nurse handed second life sentence for murder of 85 patients

Andrea Wennecker’s father Johann went into hospital just before Christmas 2002 with a lung complaint, and never left. On Thursday his daughter listen(...)

Former nurse Niels Hoegel covers his face as he arrives for the start of his trial in a courtroom in Oldenburg, Germany on Tuesday. Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/Pool via Reuters
German nurse admits to killing 100 patients
  • Europe
  • October 30, 2018, 10:23

A former nurse accused of killing 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany more than a decade ago has told a court as his trial opened that the charge(...)

Former nurse Niels Hoegel hides his face behind a folder as he sits in the dock in the district court in Oldenburg, Germany. Photograph: EPA
German nurse believed to have killed at least 84 people
  • Europe
  • August 28, 2017, 12:30

A nurse who was convicted of killing patients in Germany with overdoses of heart medication is now believed to have killed at least 84 people — and th(...)

Former nurse, only identified as Niels H, hides his face behind a folder next to his lawyer Ulrike Baumann at the local court in Oldenburg, Germany. Photograph: Carmen Jaspersen/AP Photo/dpa
German nurse sentenced to life for killing at least 30 patients

Germany has a new record-breaking serial killer: a nurse sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday after he admitted killing at least 30 patients. Auth(...)