On the fifth day of deliberations in the murder trial against the former nurse Niels Högel, the defendant has finished his statement. In court he admitted to have regularly victims looking for. At the end he had created it to be caught. Högel has only been a part of the 100 offences he is accused of. The majority of his victims, he could not remember. the
Four whole days have taken the judge at the Oldenburg regional court in time to interrogate the man who allegedly killed more people than any other in Germany since 1945. Niels Högel, a former nurse, accused of murder in 100 cases.
this Wednesday Högel has finished his statement. 43 murders he has confessed to. At the end of his statement, it was the patient, Renate R., the last victim, the poisoned Högel before his arrest in June 2005, he admitted.
Against Högel has already been imposed life imprisonment. But he was convicted only because of those six acts. In the new process, it comes to numerous other cases. The Prosecutor’s office, according to the defendant, in the years 2000 to 2005 as a nurse in the clinics of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg regularly patients administered drugs, which led to cardiac arrest. Then he tried to recover it, in case of resuscitation, in front of his colleagues as a Hero.
In the remaining 57 cases, he has not confessed, so Högel, the more he could remember. He could not but exclude these patients killed. The court had Högel in the prison patients ‘ files to study, in order to activate his memory. He was especially final in Delmenhorst – most of the tablets clouded with alcohol and Pain. The faces of his victims is not recognized in the process, but – if at all – only medical histories or diagnoses.
Högel said on Wednesday, in the end he had created it even to the fact that colleagues caught him as he injected the patient the lethal medication. In the end he did not care whether the clinical picture fitted to a rescue. He, too, had become increasingly “sloppy and unkempt”. Högel spoke of “indifference” and an “automatism” that let him have more. At the end he got poisoned every two to three services a people.
When the police took him finally, was relieved Högel, as he said in court. “Of course I was shocked and scared. But I was glad that it’s over and that I finally got away from the Whole bin.” The acts he denied, nevertheless, long and many to be given. He had been drunk at the first police interrogation strong, explained Högel before the court. “I wasn’t so far, admit it, say everything.”
