Similar Cases
In the aftermath of Norris's conviction, the British media drew comparisons with Doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer who killed more than 250 patients by lethal injections. Det Ch Supt Chris Gregg who worked on the Shipman case and led the Norris investigation was convinced that Colin Norris would have gone on to kill considerably more people if he was not stopped in his tracks.
In 2006 Benjamin Geen, a nurse at a hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire, was given 17 life sentences for murdering two of his patients and attacking 15 others. He used a variety of injections which often included insulin.
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