Doctor weeps as she denies killing patients

The treatment was not appropriate for most of the patients, the doses were too high in the other cases, and the patients, aged between 52 and 96, were not all terminally ill, the court heard.

But Mechthild Bach, 59, contested that and denied knowingly having caused any deaths. “In none of the 13 cases did I shorten the final phase of my patients’ life with morphine,” she told the court.

“I have been wrongly charged and resolutely reject all the accusations that have been made.”