A staff nurse convicted of murdering four elderly women patients may also have killed three others and was caught before he became "another Harold Shipman", police have said.
The victims
The nurse who may have inspired Colin Norris
Timeline of the killings
Colin Norris, 32, believed he could kill with impunity, claiming four "frail and helpless" victims within six months by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin.
He boasted to hospital colleagues that "someone always died" when he was on the night shift and even accurately predicted when one would lapse into a coma.
Norris, who had developed a hatred of elderly women in particular, showed no emotion as he was found guilty of four murders at Newcastle Crown Court.
He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
Police believe if Norris had not been caught - due to a doctor's vigilance - he could have killed many more, drawing comparisons with Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer who killed more than 250 patients by lethal injections.
Stuart Hall, the son of one of his victims, Ethel Hall, said Norris "was either trying to play God or wanted to be seen as a hero". Detectives said he killed simply because the women irritated him.
The gay nurse disliked bathing elderly women.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/03/nnurse903.xmlGlad they caught him, it is frightening how easy it is to kill vulnerable victims. Good job there was an alert doctor on the case.
