German nurse, 27, who killed two patients gets life sentence

German nurse, 27, who murdered two patients and tried to kill others by injecting them with a cocktail of sedatives so he could ‘be left alone’ while hungover on duty has been sentenced to life

A Munich court on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old nurse to life in prison for murdering two patients by deliberately administering non-prescription drugs so he could be “left alone”.

The nurse, identified only as Mario G, was also found guilty of six counts of attempted murder, a spokesman for the Munich court in southern Germany said.

At his trial, Mario G admitted to injecting patients with sedatives and other drug cocktails while working in the recovery room of a Munich hospital.

“I wanted to be left alone,” he said. the court told.

Three of the attacks targeted German intellectual and writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger in November 2020, but he survived.

Enzensberger died of natural causes two years later, at the age of 93.

The two patients who died as a result of Mario G’s actions were 80 and 89 years old.

According to prosecutors, the nurse administered the drugs because he wanted to be left alone during his shift, during which he often had a hangover.

The case recalled that of notorious German nurse Niels Hoegel, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for murdering 85 patients under his care.

Believed to be Germany’s most prolific serial killer, Hoegel murdered patients with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005 before finally being caught in the act.

In 2020, a Polish healthcare worker in Munich was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing at least three people with insulin.