Mass murderer Dr Harold Shipman has been locked in a Hannibal Lecter-style cell after vowing to take his own life. He is in a perspex-fronted room with a surveillance camera trained on him and ...

A bid to trace relatives of more than 80 former patients of serial killer Harold Shipman began today with an "unusual" newspaper advertising campaign. The step has been taken by the Shipman ...

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Harold Shipman (Left), Pc Ian Broadhurst (centre) and David Bieber (Right). Chris and his team had to use statistical evidence because the case dated back to the 1970s when Shipman was a junior ...

Families are unable to say goodbye to loved ones because of changes to death certificates which has also led to overcrowded mortuaries, a funeral director has said.

A British family doctor, Harold Shipman, was convicted in 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients. A later inquiry found that he had killed at least 215, over a period of 23 years. The patients whom ...

Delays to deaths being signed off are preventing families from getting the "closure they require", a funeral director has ...

A Shipman man was fatally shot Friday and authorities are searching for a suspect wanted for murder, Nelson County Sheriff Mark Embrey said in a news release. Nelson sheriff's deputies responded ...

The Augusta County woman accused of fatally shooting a Shipman man last week has been found and arrested in Harrisonburg. Katelynn Ann Hipes, a 22-year-old lifelong resident of Augusta ...

following high-profile criminal cases such as those of Harold Shipman and Lucy Letby. Up until last September, causes of death could be signed off by a GP, but now they have to be independently ...

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