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| Stepping Hill deaths: Nurse Victorino Chua rearrested | Stepping Hill deaths: Nurse Victorino Chua rearrested |
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| A male nurse has been arrested again in connection with the poisoning of patients at Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital. | A male nurse has been arrested again in connection with the poisoning of patients at Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital. |
| Victorino Chua, 48, was arrested on suspicion of three counts of murder, 18 counts of causing grievous bodily harm and poisoning offences at the hospital. | |
| Police said the arrest related to the tampering of medical records and the contamination of intravenous medicines in 2011. | |
| He remains in police custody. | He remains in police custody. |
| Mr Chua has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of patients Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Alfred Derek Weaver, 83, known to his family as Derek Weaver. | |
| Saline drips | |
| He is also being questioned over the poisoning of 18 others, five of whom have since died, some many months later. | |
| Greater Manchester Police said those five deaths - of William Dickson (known as Bill), 82, Linda McDonagh, 60, John Beeley (known as Jack), 73, Beryl Hope, 70 and Mary Cartwright, 89 - were believed to be from natural causes. | |
| Mr Chua was first arrested in January 2012. | |
| Twenty-two people were believed to have been poisoned when products were contaminated at the hospital in June and July 2011. | |
| Staff at the hospital called police after they discovered a batch of saline drips had been tampered with. | |
| Greater Manchester Police said they were "investigating the contamination of various products with insulin between 1 June 2011 and 15 July 2011". |