‘Nothing to stop a Shipman from happening here’

A ROGUE doctor like British serial killer Harold Shipman could strike in Ireland unless drugs laws are tightened, according to the State pharmacies’ regulator.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) warned current laws would be unable to stop a Shipman-like doctor obtaining hard drugs to kill patients.

Over 23 years, the Manchester GP killed more than 200 patients using lethal doses of diamorphine - pharmaceutical heroin obtained from chemists.