A UK nurse who used insulin to kill patients at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital has been convicted of murder today.
On Monday, May 18, 2015, a jury declared 49-year-old Victorino Chua guilty of killing at least two patients whose saline-drip bags he had tampered with resulting in their deaths, as well as a number of attempted poisonings between 2011 and 2012.
The killer caretaker and father-of-two was also found to have deliberately altered patients’ charts and prescriptions to effectuate potentially lethal overdoses that he thought couldn’t be traced back to him.
Only two hospital victims so far are known to have perished at Chua’s hands -- a 44-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man -- but he now faces life in prison for his perverse style of nursing.
His chilling case bears striking similarities to that of British female serial murderer Beverly Allit, a young pediatric-ward nurse responsible for the death, or near death, of over a dozen infants and toddlers under her care in 1991.
Notorious “Angel of Death” Allit was imprisoned for life in a maximum-security psychiatric facility, which may just be where Victorino Chua is headed too, once he’s been formally sentenced.
