German nurse guilty of killing 85 patients

Updated June 6 2019 - 6:33pm, first published 6:30pm
Former nurse Niels Hoegel has been convicted of murdering 85 of his former patients.
Former nurse Niels Hoegel has been convicted of murdering 85 of his former patients.

A former nurse who liked to put patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them has been convicted of 85 counts of murder in a court in northwestern Germany.

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