Danish court gives life to hospital nurse for triple murder
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A Danish court has given a life sentence to a nurse who has been found guilty of murdering three patients and attempting to kill a fourth at a hospital in southern Denmark.
The Nykoebing Falster city court says Christina Hansen deliberately gave overdoses of morphine and strong sedatives to three elderly patients in 2012 and 2015. A similar cocktail was found in a fourth patient who survived.
In its ruling Friday, the court said it was proven that Hansen "knew the patients would die of her acts."
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Hansen has denied any wrongdoing since she was arrested March 1, 2015. Danish medias say her defense lawyer immediately appealed.
A life sentence in Denmark generally means 16 years in prison.