Nurse sentenced to life in prison for killing 2 patients 'to get peace'

Nurse Mario G. intentionally injected sedatives and other drugs into patients while working at a hospital in Munich.

AFP news agency reported on May 15 that a court in Munich (Germany) has just sentenced a 27-year-old male nurse to life in prison for killing two patients by intentionally injecting them with non-prescribed drugs.

Nurse Mario G. was also convicted of six counts of attempted murder, according to a spokesman for the Munich district court in southern Germany.

During the trial, the defendant admitted to injecting sedatives and other drug compounds while working in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Munich. "I wanted to be left alone," Mario G. told the court.

Among the victims was renowned scholar and writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who was injected with non-prescription drugs three times by the nurse in November 2020, but survived. Mr. Enzensberger died two years later of natural causes at the age of 93.

The two patients who died after being injected with drugs by nurse Mario G. were 80 and 89 years old. According to prosecutors, the nurse injected the patients so that he could be alone during his shift, when he was often impaired by alcohol.

The incident recalls the gruesome case of German nurse Niels Hoegel, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for killing 85 patients.

According to AFP, the 42-year-old nurse worked at two hospitals in the cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg from 2000 to 2005. During this time, Hoegel was accused of injecting patients with drugs that were not prescribed by doctors.

Nurse "death god" Hoegel used high doses of drugs to treat patients in the intensive care unit to satisfy the "excitement" of helping them survive in their final moments.

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