Tuesday 20 January 2015

Nurse 'murdered three patients and poisoned 18 others with contaminated saline packs'


Victorino Chua, 49, a hospital nurse murdered three patients and poisoned 18 others by contaminating saline bags and ampoules with insulin, a court heard.
He also deliberately altered the dosages on prescription charts while working as a staff nurse at 
In all, 21 patients suffered as a result of his actions with three of them murdered, Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Derek Weaver, 83.
Victorino Chua denies 36 charges, including three of murder

Victorino Chua, a Filipino who first came to the UK in 2002 and had worked at Stepping Hill since 2009, sat in the dock listening impassively as the court began outlining the prosecution case against him.
Chua has pleaded not guilty to 36 charges in all, including the three alleged murders.
All of the offences are said to have happened between June 2011 and January 2012.
Chua had worked on two wards, A1 and A3, at the hospital - but it was a 'lottery' as to which patients were harmed, with the saline bags and ampoules contaminated with insulin by him to then be used by other unsuspecting doctors and nurses on innocent patients.

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