Berlin - A German court is expected to hand down its verdict on
Thursday in the case of Niels Hoegel, the ex-nurse who admitted to
killing patients with lethal injections and is being tried for 100
counts of murder.
Hoegel, 42, is accused of randomly selecting patients and then
injecting them with medication that led to heart failure or other
complications between 2000 and 2005 in hospitals in the north-western
cities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.
Public prosecutors claim he did this so he could try to resuscitate
them, motivated by boredom or a desire to impress his colleagues with
his medical skills. Many patients did not survive.
Hoegel was already found guilty of two counts of murder of patients
in 2015, among other offences. He is currently a serving a lifelong
jail sentence in Oldenburg.
