KILLER NURSE: Guilty verdict 'was right'

6:55pm Thursday 5th November 2009 in News

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KILLER nurse Benjamin Geen, who caused two patients’ deaths and seriously injured 15 others, was rightly found guilty, a top judge has ruled.

Lady Justice Hallett said the evidence was “overwhelming” that Geen had wanted the thrill of causing patients to collapse by injecting them with drugs before playing the role of saviour in reviving them.

She said there was ample evidence he intended to cause all the patients really serious harm and, as an experienced medic, he must have foreseen the potential consequences of what he did.

Fresh expert evidence was presented at the three-day Appeal Court hearing, but Lady Justice Hallett said she had heard absolutely nothing that cast doubt on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

Geen, of Orchard Way, Banbury, was jailed for life in May 2006 after being convicted of murdering two of his patients in the accident and emergency department at the town's Horton Hospital.

He is now serving a minimum 30-year sentence.

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7:51pm Thu 5 Nov 09

dave from witney says...



He knows he's guilty and probably accepts the original verdict, the trouble is that his legal team saw another opportunity to line their pockets, so an appeal was made. If the law was changed so that a defendant's legal team got a very reduced fee if they lose, then many of these appeals would not be lodged. The only reason he needs a 'legal team' , when one solicitor or lawyer could argue over any debatable points is probably solely down to the very greater fee they can charge the legal aid system.
Many of our former and present politicians trained as lawyers, that just shows that from the offset their objective in life is to bleed the taxpayer in any way or form
He knows he's guilty and probably accepts the original verdict, the trouble is that his legal team saw another opportunity to line their pockets, so an appeal was made. If the law was changed so that a defendant's legal team got a very reduced fee if they lose, then many of these appeals would not be lodged. The only reason he needs a 'legal team' , when one solicitor or lawyer could argue over any debatable points is probably solely down to the very greater fee they can charge the legal aid system. Many of our former and present politicians trained as lawyers, that just shows that from the offset their objective in life is to bleed the taxpayer in any way or form dave from witney

9:42am Fri 6 Nov 09

Lord Palmerston says...

Dave, you're wrong mate. He already has his tariff, of 30 years,so it doesn't make a big deal of difference that time pending reaching the Court of Appeal doesn't count when doing your sentence. So he had little to lose and if you or I had been him I bet we'd have given it a go as well, however hopeless. Criminal legal aid is very small beer,compared for example to being Head of Department at a middle size comp. The government as a matter of policy wants rid of it and to put "Save legal Aid" as a plank of your manifesto is hardly a vote winner so there you are. I think it was brought in by the Attlee government so Pa Broon is being very unsentimental in killing it off.
Dave, you're wrong mate. He already has his tariff, of 30 years,so it doesn't make a big deal of difference that time pending reaching the Court of Appeal doesn't count when doing your sentence. So he had little to lose and if you or I had been him I bet we'd have given it a go as well, however hopeless. Criminal legal aid is very small beer,compared for example to being Head of Department at a middle size comp. The government as a matter of policy wants rid of it and to put "Save legal Aid" as a plank of your manifesto is hardly a vote winner so there you are. I think it was brought in by the Attlee government so Pa Broon is being very unsentimental in killing it off. Lord Palmerston

10:24am Fri 6 Nov 09

woodfordhalse11 says...

My father was one of these victims, to say all but two of the patients survived their ordeals is misleading, my father passed away almost this time last year having spent the years following the ‘incident’ as the NHS called it suffering the effects and never truly recovering from them, what upsets me the most with regards to this appeal by Geen is that as victims of this we only get to hear about it when I picked up a paper, you’d have thought that someone would have thought to mentioned this to us but no we don’t matter. Thankfully he’s saying where he belongs, but how many more times over the years to come are we going to have to pick-up the papers and have this start all over again and just to make things worse, all these hundreds of thousands that are being spent on his appeals are funded by legal aid, I’m having to pay to help my fathers murder try a walk free, this can’t be happening!
My father was one of these victims, to say all but two of the patients survived their ordeals is misleading, my father passed away almost this time last year having spent the years following the ‘incident’ as the NHS called it suffering the effects and never truly recovering from them, what upsets me the most with regards to this appeal by Geen is that as victims of this we only get to hear about it when I picked up a paper, you’d have thought that someone would have thought to mentioned this to us but no we don’t matter. Thankfully he’s saying where he belongs, but how many more times over the years to come are we going to have to pick-up the papers and have this start all over again and just to make things worse, all these hundreds of thousands that are being spent on his appeals are funded by legal aid, I’m having to pay to help my fathers murder try a walk free, this can’t be happening! woodfordhalse11

5:47pm Fri 6 Nov 09

petpaws says...

I am very relieved to hear that Geen is staying in prison. He was in a position of trust and destroyed this as well peoples lives. I can't believe that the affected families were not told that Geen was going to appeal. I hope he stays in prison for a long time.
I am very relieved to hear that Geen is staying in prison. He was in a position of trust and destroyed this as well peoples lives. I can't believe that the affected families were not told that Geen was going to appeal. I hope he stays in prison for a long time. petpaws

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