Harold Shipman

One of the most prolific serial killers in contemporary history is regarded as Shipman. Shipman was found guilty on January 31, 2000, of killing 15 patients who were under his care. The only British physician to date to have been found guilty of killing his patients is Shipman. At the University of Leeds' Leeds School of Medicine, Shipman pursued a career in medicine. In 1977, he trained as a general practitioner at the Donneybrook Medical Center in Hyde, Greater Manchester.
He was interviewed in 1983 for a Granada Television documentary about how people with mental illnesses ought to be cared for in society. David Shipman was accused of killing 15 women with diamorphine injections. He forged their signatures on death certificates and altered their medical records to reflect ill health. An ex-mayor of Hyde was Shipman's final victim; she was discovered dead at her residence. The only physician in British medicine found guilty of killing his victims is Shipman.
Convicted on 15 murder counts and 1 will-forgery charge. In January 2004, at the age of 57, Shipman killed himself in his cell in HM Prison Wakefield. National publications were divided over Shipman's passing; the Daily Mirror called him a "cold coward." "Ship Ship yay!" was the front-page headline in The Sun. Although the investigation concluded that Shipman's death "could not have been predicted or averted," protocols need to be reviewed.
According to the Shipman Inquiry's findings, between 1975 and 1998, he killed at least 218 of his patients. Most of his victims were healthy elderly women. Between 1971 and 1998, he was responsible for the deaths of 459 people, however it is unclear how many of them were murder victims. The Shipman Inquiry report prompted modifications to the UK's accepted medical practices. The questions on the paperwork required in England and Wales for a cremation have been changed as a result.
In 2002, a television dramatization of the case that starring James Bolam as serial killer Harold Shipman was aired. In the Wakefield by-election campaign of 2022, the killer's name is invoked.