A DUTCH nurse was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering three children and an elderly woman in her care by giving them lethal doses of drugs in The Netherlands’ biggest murder trial in recent history.

A Dutch court today delayed its verdict in the case of a nurse accused of murdering 13 of her patients, ordering her to undergo psychiatric observation.

A DUTCH nurse, accused of murdering 13 patients with drug overdoses, yesterday told a court she secretly read tarot cards to the terminally ill “so they wouldn’t worry about their futures”.