Old-age SERIAL KILLERS
CATCHING DOCTOR DEATH
Working as a trusted family GP in Hyde, Manchester, Harold Shipman’s evil crimes went undetected for decades.
Between 1975 and 1998, he preyed on mostly older patients by giving them fatal doses of diamorphine – pain relief usually given to cancer patients.
He was caught after the death of Kathleen Grundy, 81, in June 1998. Previously fit and well, the last person she’d seen was Shipman. He recorded her sudden death as old age, but it was subsequently discovered that he’d forged
