The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story

Taal: nld
Categorie: Documentaire

Picking up the story as the case comes to trial, this episode examines how the true scale of Shipman's crimes began to emerge and how his murders conformed to a chilling pattern: his victims were mostly elderly patients, the vast majority were killed in their own homes, and Shipman certified their deaths as due to natural causes. Could it be that the fear of hospitals amongst this group of patients and their families' desire for their elderly relatives to have a 'good death' enabled Shipman to murder again and again in plain sight for nearly 30 years? In October 1999, Harold Shipman stood in the biggest murder trial in British history, but coverage of the trial, and in particular of Shipman's victims, was peculiarly low key. Speaking to victims' families, a journalist who covered the case and the victim support team leader, Chris Wilson discovers that the case had none of the usual hallmarks of a murder trial.