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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

New evidence claimed to undermine nurse’s conviction for killing patients

Benjamin Geen, then 25, arriving at Oxford crown court 13 February 2005.
Benjamin Geen, then 25, arriving at Oxford crown court on 13 February 2005. Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA

Fresh evidence has emerged that it is claimed undermines the conviction of a nurse jailed for life 17 years ago for murdering two of his patients and poisoning 15 others.

Benjamin Geen, then 25, was given a minimum 30-year sentence in 2006 largely on the basis that he had been on shift at the time of an “unusual” number of cases of respiratory arrest in the emergency ward of Horton general hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

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