WEB DESK
A nurse in Germany, was handed a life sentence today for murdering 85 patients in his care. The 42-year-old nurse Niels Hoegel murdered patients selected at random with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005 when he was caught in the act.
Hoegel has already spent a decade in prison following a previous life sentence he received for six other murders.
Judge Sebastian Buehrmann called Niels Hoegel’s killing spree incomprehensible and acknowledged the trial left many families with painful unanswered questions. Police suspect that Hoegel’s final death toll may be more than 200.