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Filipino nurse found GUILTY of murdering two hospital patients
A nurse has today been found guilty of murdering two patients and poisoning 20 others over two years while working in an NHS hospital.
Victorino Chua, 49, injected deadly levels of insulin into saline bags and ampoules while working on two wards at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.
Chua, who police believe may also have faked his qualifications before coming to Britain, was convicted of murdering Tracey Arden, 44, and Derek Weaver, 83, but cleared of killing Arnold Lancaster, 71.
While working night shifts he tampered with medicine and either gave them to patients himself or put them back so his colleagues would unwittingly use them.
After a number of poisonings police were called in so he started to tamper with prescription charts instead by doubling or trebling dosages to unsafe levels or removing drugs they needed to take.
Survivors described how they were admitted to Stepping Hill with relatively minor illnesses only to be 'left on their death beds' minutes after being treated by Chua.
After 11 days of deliberations he was found guilty on 34 of 37 charges at Manchester Crown Court, which involved poisoning 22 people in total.
Tracey Arden, who had multiple sclerosis, was admitted for a 'mild' chest infection and would have expected to 'sail through this storm', the court heard.
But she was pronounced dead eight hours after admission after being treated with a saline ampoule contaminated with insulin.
Mr Weaver was admitted with a chest infection and after being given a saline drip, he 'appeared to be in agony, (with his) eyes rolling back in his head'.
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 was cleared of one count of murder, one count of manslaughter and one count of attempting to administer poison
Chua blinked as the verdicts were delivered but gave no other reaction.
He will be sentenced tomorrow.
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