The Shipman Files

Taal: nld
Categorie: Documentaire

This episode opens with the publication of the first report of the public inquiry into the deaths of Shipman's patients - a report that officially concluded that while working as a GP, Harold Shipman had murdered 260 of his patients. But how had he got away with killing on such a scale for so long? Wilson explores the reaction to the staggering total, discovering how commentators came up with a range of theories to try to understand why a seemingly ordinary doctor had killed so many people. Wilson meets a detective who led a team that questioned Shipman after his conviction about the murders he committed in Todmorden. He reveals how Shipman refused to utter a single word during several days of interrogation - a silence he maintained until he committed suicide in his prison cell, four years into multiple life sentences. After seeing reports of Shipman's suicide, a former nurse came forward.