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Dr. Harold Shipman aka Dr. Death was a Britain General Practitioner most prolific serial killer convicted of killing his patients, at least 250 over a twenty-three year period. (Batty, 2005) Dr. Shipman entered general practice in early 1974 when he joined the Abraham Ormerod Medical Practice in Todmorden. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) However, in 1974, during this period, Dr. Shipman was addicted to pethidine. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) Dr. Shipman was convicted of making out drug prescriptions to himself to supply his addiction and was fined heavily. Therefore, Dr. Shipman was fired from the Todmorden practice in 1975 for forging prescriptions. After Dr. Shipman's conviction was reported to the General Medical Council, in which they decided to take no disciplinary action against him. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) Dr. Shipman received psychiatric and drug treatment, he re-emerged as a General Practitioner in Hyde. Dr. Harold Shipman became a General Practitioner at the Donnebrook Medical Center in Hyde near Manchester in 1977. (Batty, 2005) “Dr. Shipman opened his own surgery at 21 Market Street in 1992, in Hyde” (Criminal …show more content…

Shipman was found to own a surgery computer in which he had made false entries to support the causes of death he gave on his victims' death certificates. (Batty, 2005) Dr. Shipman always recommended the family members of his patients to cremate his victim’s body. Dr. Shipman was sentenced by the Preston Crown Court to 15 terms of life imprisonment and, for the forgery, a concurrent term of four years’ imprisonment. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) Between 2000 and 2001, the Coroner opened inquests into a more than 232 deaths; those hearings were immediately adjourned. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) During the police investigation, Dr. Shipman was accused of killing 215 people, 171 were women, and 44 were men by administrating a lethal dose of an opiate, most frequently diamorphine- pharmaceutical heroin. (Batty,

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