Harold shipman biography obituary

Born on January 14, , Shipman is one of the most notorious serial killers in the world, with confirmed victims, though the true number of his victims remains unknown. He was convicted of fifteen murders on January 31, , and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation of no parole. Two years later, his sentence was confirmed by the highest court.

Harold Shipman was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. His father, also named Harold Shipman, was a crew driver and a devout Methodist.

Harold Shipman (born January 14, , Nottingham, England—died January 13, , Wakefield) was a British doctor and serial killer who murdered about of his patients, .

Shipman was particularly close to his mother, Vera, who unfortunately passed away when he was a teenager. He then became a general practitioner in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, in He was also required to attend a drug rehabilitation clinic in York. Shipman briefly worked as a medical officer at the Hatfield College in Durham and had a temporary position at the National Coal Board before becoming a general practitioner at the Donnybrook Medical Center in Hyde, Cheshire.

In the s, Shipman continued to work successfully as a general practitioner in Hyde.

British serial killer Harold Shipman attended Leeds School of Medicine and began working as a physician in Between then and his arrest in , he killed at least and possibly as many.

In , he opened his own practice on Market Street and became a respected member of the community. He even appeared in a documentary about the treatment of mentally ill patients in In March , Dr. Linda Reynolds from Brooke Hospital raised concerns about the unusually high mortality rate among Shipman's patients, especially the large number of elderly women who were cremated without being examined by any other medical professionals.

Reynolds suspected that Shipman was either negligently or intentionally killing his patients. The police investigation did not find any evidence at the time, and later, the court criticized the police for appointing incompetent doctors to such a crucial case.