Nurse convicted of murdering four patients in Glasgow

A staff nurse was today convicted of murdering four frail patients by giving them overdoses of the diabetes drug insulin.

Colin Norris (aged 32), from Egilsay Terrace, Glasgow, who once said he disliked caring for “geriatric patients”, killed the elderly women and tried to murder another while he worked at two Leeds hospitals in 2002.

The trial at Newcastle Crown Court, which started in mid-October, heard that suspicions were raised when Norris predicted the death of one woman, who slipped into a fatal hypoglycaemic coma later in his shift.

West Yorkshire Police looked into other earlier deaths while he was working at Leeds General Infirmary and the city’s St James’s Hospital. They found three other women, none of whom were diabetics, had died from insulin overdoses.

Norris was convicted of the charges by an 11-1 majority on the fourth day of deliberations.