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Residents of Hyde, Greater Manchester have spoken about the lasting impact of Harold Shipman, the UK’s most prolific serial killer, a quarter of a century after he was convicted of murdering 15 patients under his care. The doctor, who is believed to have killed up to 260 people, most of whom were elderly women, was found guilty of administering fatal doses of diamorphine.
One resident, Patricia Powell, said she believes she saved her mother’s life by refusing to leave her alone with Shipman in 1998, a few months before he was arrested. “Whatever he wanted to do backfired on him because I was there,” she said. Many of his victims’ families refused to believe that the doctor was capable of such heinous crimes, building up a veneer of trust among patients.
Another former patient, Louise Aliceto, was dismissed by the doctor when she visited him with a rash on her hand. When Shipman’s crimes were disclosed, she discovered that she knew some of his victims.
Shipman’s crimes left people in Hyde terrified of going to the doctor’s – some even became too scared to have a flu injection. Ian Whyatt, who was a patient of the doctor as a child, said that Shipman was an “arrogant” doctor who looked down on his patients. The 57-year-old added that he had friends whose family members were among the GP’s victims.
Alan Braddock, another of Shipman’s patients, said there was “always something not quite right” about the doctor. He left an unpleasant “aura”, Braddock said, and claimed that Shipman had told him “Don’t waste my time. Get it into a chemist,” when providing him with a prescription
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