The trained geriatric nurse had come to the clinic via a temporary employment agency since July 2020 and mainly worked in the so-called guard ward, an intermediate ward between intensive care and normal ward where the sick were cared for around the clock.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, chat histories suggest that the young man wanted to boast about resuscitation assumptions and about having saved human lives. “So risking someone’s life and then standing there as a white knight afterwards, we of course classify that as low motivation,” said Leiding after the arrest.
The case is reminiscent of that of the patient killer Niels Högel, who in 2019 was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Oldenburg district court for murder in 85 cases. He worked as a nurse in intensive care medicine in clinics in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst and, according to the regional court, killed a total of 85 patients by giving them medication that was not medically indicated. It is said that it was primarily about being able to try to resuscitate the patient afterwards and to shine in front of colleagues.
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