Killer nurse Niels Hoegel is charged with 97 more murders by German prosecutors
Hoegel says he enjoyed bringing patients back to life after injecting them with lethal substances - but his attempts at revival frequently failed and he became the worst serial killer in German history, prosecutors say
A nurse who is already serving a life sentence for murdering two patients has been accused of killing another 97 people with lethal injections by German prosecutors.
If found guilty of the new charges, he would officially be Germany’s deadliest serial killer.
The third trial of Niels Hoegel, 41, is expected to start later this year, a court spokesman in the northern city of Oldenburg said.
Hoegel has admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure or circulatory collapse so he could then try to revive them and, when successful, shine as a saviour before his medical peers and superiors.
In a case police have called “unique in the history of the German republic,” he earlier testified that at times he acted out of “boredom”, feeling euphoric when he managed to bring a patient back to life.