German male nurse gets life for series of killings

A nurse was yesterday convicted of killing 28 of his patients at a hospital in southern Germany and sentenced to life in prison.

Stephan Letter was found guilty of 12 counts of murder, 15 of manslaughter and one mercy killing in what has been described as Germany’s biggest series of killings since the Second World War.

According to evidence presented at his nine-month trial in Kempten, Letter, 28, killed his victims with a lethal injection of a cocktail of drugs.