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Stepping Hill Hospital poisoning deaths: Ten inquests held Stepping Hill Hospital deaths: 'Unrelated' to poisoning
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Inquests are being held into ten deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital following the jailing of killer nurse Victorino Chua. Ten people who were patients when killer nurse Victorino Chua worked at Stepping Hill Hospital later died from "unrelated causes", inquests have found.
The father of two was found guilty of murdering two patients and poisoning 20 others in May. The 49-year-old was found guilty of murdering two patients and poisoning 20 others in May.
Chua was convicted of poisoning, or attempting to poison, six of the ten people for which inquests are being held. Chua was convicted of poisoning, or attempting to poison, six of the ten people for whom the inquests were held.
The remaining four cases are patients who died while Chua worked on wards at Stepping Hill in Stockport. A further four were people whose deaths were investigated by police.
'Bitter nurse' No criminal charges were brought in relation to those deaths.
There were no criminal charges brought in relation to Raymond Jenyon, 86, George Keep, 84, Vera Pearson, 84 and 89-year-old Hannah Hull. 'Considerable delay'
Chua was found guilty of poisoning Beryl Hope, 70, Mary Cartwright, 89, Linda McDonagh, 60, William Dickson, 82 and John Beeley who was 73. Verdicts of death by natural causes were recorded against three of the four "new" cases of Vera Pearson, 84, Hannah Hull, 89, and Raymond Jenyon, 86.
In the case of Marietta Pawlyszyn, 86, he was convicted of trebling the drug dosage on her prescription chart although this was never administered. The death of George Keep, 84, was accidental following a fall in the road, his inquest heard.
The 49-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years for killing Tracey Arden, 44, and Derek Weaver, 83 and poisoning 20 others, Chua was convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to Beryl Hope, 70, Linda McDonagh, 60, Mary Cartwright, 69, William Dickson, 82, and John Beeley, 73.
He was found guilty of tampering with saline bags and ampoules while working on two acute wards at the hospital in Greater Manchester in June and July 2011. They also later died of natural causes, recorded South Manchester Coroner John Pollard.
These were unwittingly used by other nurses, causing a series of insulin overdoses to mainly elderly victims. Marietta Pawlyszyn, 86, who Chua tried to administer poison to by altering her prescription chart, died as a result of misadventure following complications in heart surgery, her inquest heard.
Among the evidence produced by the prosecution was a self-penned letter found at Chua's home in Stockport after his arrest in January 2012. Chua was jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years for killing Tracey Arden, 44, and Derek Weaver, 83 and poisoning 20 others.
In the letter, which he described as "the bitter nurse confession", Chua said he was "an angel turned into an evil person" and "there's a devil in me". Concluding the inquests in Stockport, Mr Pollard said: "We have heard a number of inquests today in relation to those people who had the misfortune of being patients at Stepping Hill Hospital at the time when Chua was carrying out his crimes.
"As a result of that, inquests into the deaths of those patients have been considerably delayed and I apologise to each and every one of the families of the deceased for that delay. And I thank them for their patience and forbearance in the meantime."