article_snippet: The former office clerk died in April last year at around 7am, with staff at the specialist house having checked on The former office clerk in The former office clerk room just two hours earlier.
article_snippet: Harold Shipman, a GP who murdered patients by administering killer injections, is described as one of the most prolific serial killers in Britain's history.
article_snippet: For years the doctor went unnoticed as the doctor prescribed patients with death sentences, killing patients with death sentences off for no other reason than for the doctor own entertainment.
article_snippet: After his mother's favourite child was diagnosed with lung cancer, the doctor oversaw his mother's favourite child decline and carefully observed the effects of morphine as a means of pain relief.
article_snippet: It was a local undertaker who first raised concerns after an unusually high number of Shipman's patients died in similar circumstances.
article_snippet: Largely Shipman's patients were recorded as having been found propped up on a sofa, fully clothed, at the time of Shipman's patients deaths.
article_snippet: In 1998, Shipman was arrested for the murder of several patients.
article_snippet: A trial found one of Shipman's colleagues guilty of the murders of 15 patients though experts believe one of Shipman's colleagues is responsible for hundreds of other deaths.
article_snippet: Pathology reports found morphine toxicity was the cause of death among most of one of Shipman's colleagues victims.
article_snippet: In 2004, four years after being jailed for one of Shipman's colleagues crimes, Shipman's body was found hanging in the cell of the Wakefield Prison where one of Shipman's colleagues was being held.