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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Katie Dickinson

Anaesthetist who tried to kill shop owner with lethal injection jailed for life

Experienced anaesthetist Darren Harris has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years after trying to kill a record shop owner by injecting him with a lung-stopping drug (North Yorkshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

An experienced anaesthetist who tried to kill a record shop owner by injecting him with a lung-stopping drug in an “entirely motiveless” attack, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years.

Darren Harris, 58, spent several hours posing as a customer in Gary Lewis’s vinyl store before waiting until his back was turned and stabbing him in the thigh with a hypodermic syringe, in July last year.

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