Thread: Filipino nurse serial killer receives 25 life sentences.

Nurse Victorino Chua, found guilty of murdering and poisoning patients at Stepping Hill Hospital, has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years.

Chua killed Tracey Arden, 44, and Derek Weaver, 83, at the hospital in Stockport by injecting insulin into saline bags and ampoules.

The father-of-two was convicted on Monday following a three-month trial.



Judge Mr Justice Openshaw described Chua as an "experienced nurse who used cunning" to poison patients.

He was found guilty of tampering with saline bags and ampoules while working on two acute wards at the hospital in Greater Manchester, in June and July 2011.

These were unwittingly used by other nurses, causing a series of insulin overdoses to mainly elderly victims.

Detectives described Chua as a narcissistic psychopath.

His victims' families were at Manchester Crown Court as Chua was told he would serve at least 35 years in prison before being considered for parole.

Speaking outside court after the verdict, Mr Weaver's sister, Lynda Bleasdale, said: "My sister had a heart attack the day before Derek died. Seeing all the stress of it was obviously a contributory factor to that."

She said Chua "obviously enjoyed watching people suffer".

Judge Openshaw said it was "strikingly sinister and truly wicked" that Chua did not personally administer the insulin to most of the patients, so it was left to chance which of them were poisoned.

He said Chua poisoned Jack Beeley, 72, to "shut up a patient who he found particularly troublesome".

Grant Misell, 41, was left brain damaged after being poisoned, as the insulin overdose starved his brain of oxygen.

Chua was found not guilty of the murder of 71-year-old Arnold Lancaster but convicted of poisoning him in an act the judge described as "indescribably wicked".

In all, Chua was convicted of two murders, 22 counts of attempted grievous bodily harm, one count of grievous bodily harm, seven attempts of administering poison and one count of administering poison.

He received 25 life sentences in total and showed no emotion as he was taken down to the cells. Judge Openshaw said he would be 84 years old before he was eligible for parole.

Among the evidence produced by the prosecution was a self-penned letter found at Chua's home, in Stockport, after his arrest in January 2012 for changing prescription charts so patients would get dangerously incorrect amounts of drugs.

In the letter, described as "the bitter nurse confession" by Chua, he said he was "an angel turned into an evil person" and "there's a devil in me". He also wrote of having things he would "take to the grave".

It emerged the investigation team found inconsistencies in Chua's medical qualifications, which they raised with the Department of Health and the Home Office, as well as contacting the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Nazir Afzal, who was responsible for prosecuting Chua, said the Stepping Hill case raised the "extremely worrying" prospect that many untrained foreign workers could be working in UK hospitals.

But the chief executive of the NMC, Jackie Smith, said there were only four cases of fraudulent qualifications in the last 10 years, on the register by people who trained outside the European economic area.

In a statement, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust said: "Our thoughts have been with the victims and their families throughout this time.

"We know they have suffered great distress but hope this sentence helps provide some closure for them in terms of seeing that justice has been served."

Stepping Hill nurse Victorino Chua jailed for life - BBC News

Hopefully 35 years of being chittychangchanged.

Give him a job in the prison infirmary and it would solve the prison overcrowding problems.

Well time to make nursing a good profession again and train UK citizens to do UK jobs.

He would be a good British army doctor ,

^ They can't do that Yaso.

80,000 UK students are told they can't train as a nurse: Thousands can't get on courses despite four in five new NHS workers being foreign

• Nurses in their 40s who left to start families can't find jobs to return to
• It has emerged that it costs NHS £70,000 to train a nurse for three years
• But for the same amount it can hire three qualified foreigners
• Hospitals recruited almost 6,000 overseas nurses last year
• Estimated there are 100,000 applicants a year for 20,000 training places in
• Government has cut number of places, from 20,829 in 2009/10 to 17,219 in 2012/13 – although it rose last year to 19,206

80,000 UK students are told they can't train as a nurse | Daily Mail Online

Well considering the NHS spent around 2.5 billion on Agency staff,perhaps its time to start.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

^ They can't do that Yaso.

80,000 UK students are told they can't train as a nurse: Thousands can't get on courses despite four in five new NHS workers being foreign

• Nurses in their 40s who left to start families can't find jobs to return to
• It has emerged that it costs NHS £70,000 to train a nurse for three years
• But for the same amount it can hire three qualified foreigners
• Hospitals recruited almost 6,000 overseas nurses last year
• Estimated there are 100,000 applicants a year for 20,000 training places in
• Government has cut number of places, from 20,829 in 2009/10 to 17,219 in 2012/13 – although it rose last year to 19,206

80,000 UK students are told they can't train as a nurse | Daily Mail Online

^^ Well said, Horatio.

RIP to the poor people who were in hospital to be helped but were murdered by a nutter in disguise.

Originally Posted by Horatio Hornblower

Well time to make nursing a good profession again and train UK citizens to do UK jobs.

Too late. (Some of ) The people of England have voted against that so you can say goodbye to the chances of anything resembling a decent standard of care on the NHS.

Should killer Victorino Chua ever have been allowed to work as a nurse in the UK?

The 49-year-old has been found guilty of murdering two of his patients at Stockport's Stepping Hill hospital and poisoning others by contaminating saline drips and ampoules with insulin.

Investigations into the Filipino father-of-two's background have cast doubt over the validity of his qualifications.

When officers from Greater Manchester Police travelled to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, they discovered inconsistencies between Chua's two nursing certificates.

BBC North West Tonight understands investigators were so worried that they wrote to the government and immediately contacted the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).




Nazir Afzal, who was responsible for prosecuting Chua, said the Stepping Hill case raises the "extremely worrying" prospect that many untrained foreign workers could be working in UK hospitals.

Stepping Hill: Victorino Chua's nursing qualifications questioned - BBC News

where's the BNP when you need um ?
wheres Enoch ?
Even General Idi Amin could run this country better..


British jobs for British workers !

Political correctness strikes again too polite to vet the immigrants papers properly

Just let in a few they look like this

Murderer who killed to have a sense of power and because he's a psychopath, and he abused a position of trust. Wake the f*ck up Britain, he needs to be put down Texas style.

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

Drawing and quartering may have been inhumane, but lethal injection is no worse than getting a tooth pulled.

Originally Posted by BobR

Murderer who killed to have a sense of power and because he's a psychopath, and he abused a position of trust. Wake the f*ck up Britain, he needs to be put down Texas style.

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

Drawing and quartering may have been inhumane, but lethal injection is no worse than getting a tooth pulled.

The cost to the UK tax payer is £40,000 per annum for his sentence x 35!!

this case warrants the lethal injection.

Originally Posted by BobR

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

You nailed it. Poetic justice.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Originally Posted by BobR

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

You nailed it. Poetic justice.

Yes, it's very "amusing" to watch people be killed.

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Originally Posted by BobR

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

You nailed it. Poetic justice.

Yes, it's very "amusing" to watch people be killed.

Stroller, I just cannot understand how you fail to see the obvious difference between those who enjoy seeing people die and those who enjoy seeing people die. I can only hope that some of the resident forum sadists will take some time off from their perverted gloating and ball-cutting blueprint-designing to explain to you just how satisfying and fulfilling the death of others can be while, at the same time, being a terrible and incomprehensible horror that only the scum of the earth could ever take pleasure in.

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Originally Posted by BobR

Cannot think of a better candidate for a lethal injection, and the irony would make it even more amusing.

You nailed it. Poetic justice.

Yes, it's very "amusing" to watch people be killed.

The fact is, he is what is known in the press as a monster. he is a Peter Sutcliffe, a Harold Shipman, an Ian Brady and Fred West.

They are not to be pitied like the mentally ill killer, there can be only one way to treat people like this, and that is a death sentence.

We Brits are reluctant to do this, instead we knock their houses down, cast the rubble into the sea and house the murderer in a warm cell with satellite TV and good medical treatment, as if that will do anything to placate the victims and their families. It is the victims and their relatives that need justice, much more than society.

In some Arab societies, they operate the "eye for an eye" ruling of "qisas", the Sharia law of retribution, but it is the victims family who determine the punishment of killers, and they can even pardon them if they wish.

here is a case.

the victim’s family were to take an active role in the punishment of their son’s killer – it was expected that they would push away the chair on which he stood.

Screaming for his life, Balal was dragged out to the gallows by officials and had his head placed in the noose.

Yet instead of sealing his fate, Abdollah’s mother slapped Balal’s face and then signalled her forgiveness. The victim’s father then removed the noose.

The extraordinary scenes were captured in a series of photos released by the government-funded news agency Isna. The victim's father, Abdolghani Hosseinzadeh, told the agency that his wife had had a dream three days earlier in which their son told her not to retaliate for his death.

According to reports in the Guardian, he said they reconsidered Balal’s fate, and decided he did not deliberately try to kill their son.

“Abdollah was taking a stroll in the bazaar with his friends when Balal shoved him,” he said. “Abdollah was offended and kicked him but at this time the murderer took an ordinary kitchen knife out of his socks.” He added that Balal was “inexperienced and didn't know how to handle a knife… he was naïve”.

Balal has now been returned to jail – the system of qisas gives victims’ families control over the administering of death penalties, not prison sentences.

Now wouldnt that be a good way of meting out justice to the like of this killer, and testing the resolve for retribution felt by victims.

A coroner is probing up to 11 more deaths linked to killer nurse Victorino Chua.

A judge handed the ‘sinister and truly wicked’ psychopath a 35-year sentence yesterday for murdering two patients and poisoning 19 more at Stepping Hill Hospital.

But senior coroner John Pollard revealed last night that he is planning inquests into 11 further suspicious deaths.

In each case, there were grounds to believe the patients died after being poisoned by the Filipino nurse.

Inquest juries may conclude the patients were unlawfully killed.

That would expose Stepping Hill to further huge compensation claims.

It is already under fire for employing Chua without ensuring the 49-year-old father of two was properly qualified.

The case has raised grave doubts about the vetting of foreign nurses.

Mr Pollard, who also dealt with the Harold Shipman murders, told the Mail: ‘There are 13 inquests or potential inquests in the pipeline, including those into the people where Chua has been convicted of murder.

‘I am aware that there were other victims of poisoning, one or more of whom may well have died subsequently but their death/s have not been referred to me.’

In 11 of the cases being probed by the South Manchester coroner police lacked the evidence to lay charges.

British hospitals are still trying to recruit hundreds of nurses from the Philippines, with offers of salaries of up to £25,000 a year, life insurance cover and free flights and accommodation.

In 2013, the Nursing and Midwifery Council suspended the recruitment of foreign nurses from some countries, including the Philippines, because of fears some recruits were using fake documents to land jobs here.

This has now been relaxed because officials at the Council insist checks on foreign recruits have been tightened up in the aftermath of the Chua case. But we can now reveal evidence of a shambolic recruitment process in the Philippines where two of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals are recruiting staff.

This includes how:
Candidates who sat an ‘entrance exam’ to work in the UK were allowed to cheat during a nursing competence test.
A nurse who sat the exam described how an official, acting for a Philippines recruitment firm working on behalf of the NHS, let candidates take pictures of the answers on their smartphones.
Applicants still only had to provide photocopies of their qualifications when being selected for job interviews.

There are 23,000 Filipino nurses working in the UK. Roughly half work in the NHS, while the rest work in privately run hospitals and nursing homes. Nurses in the Philippines earn as little as £1,500 a year.

Looked to see yesterday, what nurses from other countries need to do to become a British nurse.

Two days of training on dummy humans and a series of multiple choice questions, what a joke.

Originally Posted by Horatio Hornblower

Looked to see yesterday, what nurses from other countries need to do to become a British nurse.

Two days of training on dummy humans and a series of multiple choice questions, what a joke.

We have the same problem in the US; both at county hospitals and at large HMO's like Kaiser Permanente all you see are foreign nurses and doctors. Instead of hiring nurses on a permanent basis, some hospitals like kaiser are hiring free lance nurses on a per diem basis. It's rather obvious that this is hazardous to patients both from incompetence and the likelihood of a serial killer nurse moving around often enough to not be caught.
We've had serial killer nurses much like this asshole.

Notice that we did sentence him to death.

Robert Diaz | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Poisoner - Coronary care nurse
Number of victims: 12
Date of murders: March-April 1981
Date of arrest: November 24, 1981
Date of birth: 1938
Victims profile: Men and women ranging in age from 52 to 89 (hospital patients)
Method of murder: Poisoning (overdoses of the drug Lidocaine)
Location: Riverside County, California, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on April 11, 1984. Died in prison on August 9, 2010

Sentenced to death...Died in prison....TWENTY-SIX years later! So much for the death penalty.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Sentenced to death...Died in prison....TWENTY-SIX years later! So much for the death penalty.

Even as a lawyer I've wondered for years why death penalty appeals are not a one time shot, at which you must raise all issues you intend to appeal or automatically waive them.

Most other legal pleadings or proceedings are like that, if you fail to raise an issue in your initial filing, you cannot raise it later. Granted very limited exceptions could be granted when there is good cause and any reasonable doubt about the factual guilt of the convicted exists.

question for Davis, has the story about this murderous psycho made the papers in the Philippines?