New sentence of life imprisonment for the death nurse | Chronic

Niels Högel, A 42-year-old nurse, who worked in the Oldenburg and Delmenhorst clinics in northern Germany, was convicted of killing 85 patients between 2000 and 2005 and sentenced again to prison. for life by a judge. of the Oldenburg Regional Court.

The judge also found that the guilt was "particularly serious", so that the chances that he could leave after 15 years of imprisonment (which is common in life sentences) disappear. Högel has been in prison for 10 years. The criminal activity of the nurse was discovered by chance in early 2005 when a colleague saw him injecting a toxic substance to a patient.

In 2008, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted murder and in 2015, a judge sentenced him to life imprisonment after being convicted of killing five people. The new sentence did not surprise anyone. The local press has described Högel as the largest serial murderer in the German criminal history since the Second World War.