HOSPITAL managers are bracing themselves for compensation claims worth hundreds of thousands of pounds by the victims and families of killer Banbury nurse Benjamin Geen.

The news comes after Geen, 25, was found guilty of murdering two patients and causing grievous bodily harm to another 15 while working at the Horton Hospital between December 2003 and February 2004.

Robbie Robinson, 55, one of the patients preyed on by Geen, said he still bears the physical and mental scars. Geen maliciously injected him with a drug which caused him to stop breathing on December 13, 2003.

The former RAF serviceman, who said he has been left devastated, said he plans to sue the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust.

He said: "I will be looking for compensation. It has plagued me for so long not only me, but all the other victims as well. I still suffer from shortness of breath and I can't do a lot of the physical things that I used to."

Top clinical negligence barrister Anthony Fairweather said the trust could be sued by surviving victims, the families of the two murder victims, Anthony Bateman and David Onley, and the families of patients who have died since the incidents.

Mr Fairweather said: "If the trust was found to have failed to properly supervise Mr Geen, then it could leave it open to a significant civil claim. Cumulatively it could cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds.

"Possible compensation claims could be based on things like whether the hospital staff picked up on it soon enough and whether Mr Geen was properly trained and supervised."

Horton Hospital chief executive Mike Fleming said that if victims put in compensation claims they would be dealt with as quickly as possible.

All claims for compensation would be passed on to the NHS Litigation Authority.