Pinoy nurse in UK found guilty of killing, poisoning patients

A Filipino nurse in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of murdering two patients and attempting to poison several others while working in a hospital in Stockport from 2011 to 2012, reports said Monday.

Victorino Chua, however, was cleared of a third murder charge, according to a report on BBC News.

The 49-year-old father of two killed his victims by injecting deadly levels of insulin into saline bags and ampoules while working at Stepping Hill Hospital, a separate report on the Daily Mail said.

He was convicted by the Manchester Crown Court of killing Tracey Arden, 44, who had multiple sclerosis, and Derek Weaver, 83, who was admitted in the hospital with a chest infection. The incident took place on two wards.

Chua, however, was cleared of killing Arnold Lancaster, 71, but was convicted of crimes against dozens of other patients, including one who suffered a serious brain injury, the BBC News report said.

The BBC report said Chua, who allegedly forged papers to work at a care home in 2008, three years before working at Stepping Hill Hospital, "showed no emotion as the verdicts were passed. " The Daily Mail report said he "blinked... but gave no other reaction."

"Angel turned into an evil person"

Among the evidence used by the prosecution against Chua was his handwritten letter where he described himself as "an angel turned into an evil person." The letter was found at his home in Stockport.

The prosecution believed Chua, who was arrested in January 2012 and rearrested in March 2014, took his frustrations on his patients.

One of the victims said in the BBC News report that he thought Chua "must have been stressed out or something."

BBC News quoted police officials as saying that solving the case was like putting together a million-piece jigsaw puzzle.

They also questioned if Chua, who brought his family to the UK from the Philippines in 2002, was a fully qualified nurse, the Daily Mail report said.

Detective Superintendent Simon Barraclough was quoted in the Daily Mail report as describing Chua as a "serial killer." —KBK, GMA News

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