Harold Shipman, a general practitioner by profession, is considered one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers. He carried out the killings by releasing abnormal amounts of diamorphine into the ...

Doctors are among the most trusted people in any society, often operating with minimal oversight and unquestioned authority.

BBC Two's three-part docuseries The Harold Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story, chronicles the atrocities committed by a Manchester GP over two decades. Instead of focusing on the killer himself ...

H Y D E, England, June 20 -- A public inquiry was opened today into the case of Dr. Harold Shipman, who police say may have murdered more than 600 people in the town of Hyde. If true, it would make ...

Britain’s worst mass murderer, Harold Shipman — a family doctor who killed hundreds of his patients — was found hanging dead in his cell on Tuesday, the prison service said. Shipman, nicknamed “Dr ...

On the latest episode of the Mail's 'The Psychology of a Serial Killer', forensic psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Johns and police surgeon Dr. Harry Brunjes interrogate the 'unusual' early life of serial ...

Twenty years ago today Harold Shipman was found guilty of the murders of 15 women – and I remember it so clearly. As the guilty verdicts were read out at Preston crown court, each family gave a gasp ...

A nurse has told how she is haunted by the memory of a night shift she spent with killer doctor Harold Shipman when three patients died in 1972. Sandra Whitehead, then just 18, said she was ‘too young ...