vctorino Chua, who described himself as an "evil person" in a letter found at his home, tampered with saline solution
In other cases he falsified patients' charts to increase the dosage of prescribed drugs.
In the summer of 2011, two years after Chua arrived at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport, patients suddenly started to suffer unexpected attacks caused by low blood sugar levels.
Two patients - Tracy Arden, 44, and Alfred Weaver, 83, died as a resultAnother of his victims, 41-year-old Grant Misell, has been told he might never recover from the serious brain damage he suffered at the nurse's hands.
In a letter found by police following his arrest Chua had written what he described as "a bitter nurse confession".
In the 13-page document discovered in a kitchen drawer at home the 49-year-old warned that there was "a devil" in him.
In broken English he said: "I'm writing this letter in case something happen to me my family can continue my case or can tell somebody to look at it and work out how an angel turn to an evil person.The document was part of an attempt by Chua to manage the anger and frustration that had prompted him to visit an occupational health counsellor at work.
The condition of one of his poisoning victims, patient Linda McDonagh, deteriorated rapidly after she was admitted to Stepping Hill.
The 59-year-old was severely ill with motor neurone disease and was unable to tell nurses how she was feeling as the insulin took hold.
She survived the attack but died seven months
Nurse Victorino Chua has been found guilty of murdering and poisoning patients in the hospital where he worked.
The Filipino father-of-two injected insulin into saline
solutions before returning them to storage leaving unsuspecting
colleagues to administer the poison.In other cases he falsified patients' charts to increase the dosage of prescribed drugs.
In the summer of 2011, two years after Chua arrived at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport, patients suddenly started to suffer unexpected attacks caused by low blood sugar levels.
Two patients - Tracy Arden, 44, and Alfred Weaver, 83, died as a resultAnother of his victims, 41-year-old Grant Misell, has been told he might never recover from the serious brain damage he suffered at the nurse's hands.
In a letter found by police following his arrest Chua had written what he described as "a bitter nurse confession".
In the 13-page document discovered in a kitchen drawer at home the 49-year-old warned that there was "a devil" in him.
In broken English he said: "I'm writing this letter in case something happen to me my family can continue my case or can tell somebody to look at it and work out how an angel turn to an evil person.The document was part of an attempt by Chua to manage the anger and frustration that had prompted him to visit an occupational health counsellor at work.
The condition of one of his poisoning victims, patient Linda McDonagh, deteriorated rapidly after she was admitted to Stepping Hill.
The 59-year-old was severely ill with motor neurone disease and was unable to tell nurses how she was feeling as the insulin took hold.
She survived the attack but died seven months
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