Wherever he went, he was a popular GP. But few knew about the secret in his past

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GP Harold Shipman, who has been convicted of murdering elderly female patients, was fined 600 pounds sterling in 1976 for illegally procuring drugs. He had become addicted to pethidine while working in Todmorden, England. He obtained the pethidine by overstating quantities on prescriptions, a technique he later used to obtain the morphine he used to commit murder. In total, he procured 22,000mg of morphine, the equivalent of 1,466 fatal doses.

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The solicitor who questioned her mother's death

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The arrest and conviction of GP Harold Shipman for the murder of 15 elderly female patients is largely attributable to the work of Angela Woodruff, a solicitor specializing in probate whose mother, Kathleen Grundy, was one of Shipman's victims. Woodruff expressed concern about her mother's will, which had been forged by Shipman. Grundy was meticulous about composing letters, yet the will contained simple errors. Woodruff's investigation of the suspicious aspects of her mother's death prompted police to search Shipman's surgery and to have Grundy's body exhumed.

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Suspicious will prompted mass murder inquiry

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Dr Harold Shipman, a GP from Hyde, Greater Manchester, England, has appeared at the Crown Court in Preston, England, on charges of murdering 15 women. He denies all the charges. The case against him began to develop when the daughter of 82-year-old Kathleen Grundy, who died in Jun 1998 while under Shipman's care, became suspicious about her mother's will, in which all her estate, money and house were given to Shipman. Her body and those of other elderly women who died under Shipman's care were subsequently exhumed.

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