14 DAY TRIAL // A nurse in Britain has been found guilty of murdering 2 patients by deliberately injecting them with lethal doses of drugs.
Benjamin Geen, 25, waited for vulnerable patients in the emergency department of the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire, after which found a way to get involved in their treatment.
The patients' condition deteriorated and Geen was there to assist them. But his intervention proved to be lethal in 2 cases and damaging for 15 other patients he injected with drugs.
He murdered David Onley, 75, from Deddington, who died on 21 January 2004, and Anthony Bateman, 66, from Banbury, who died on 6 January 2004; both of the patients had been admitted in the hospital seriously ill and did not stand a chance once Geen took "care" of them.
The trial at Oxford Crown Court showed how Geen injected the patients with lethal doses of insulin, muscle relaxants and sedatives which prevented them from breathing, the man enjoying to revive them. He even bragged to his colleagues saying: "There is always a resuscitation when I'm on duty." One of the doctors astonished by the unexplained respiratory failures which happened between December 2003 and February 2004 decided to take action.
He found that Benjamin Geen was the common factor in every one of these unusual events. The prosecution said Geen must have known the fatal consequences of what he was doing but found that toying with patients' lives was a "price he was willing to pay in order to satisfy his perverse needs."