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Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004) was a British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history. On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released. The Shipman Inquiry, chaired by Dame Janet Smith, began on 1 September 2000. Lasting almost two years, it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. About 80% of his victims were women. His youngest victim was a 41-year-old man. Much of Britain's legal structure concerning health care and medicine was reviewed and modified as a result of Shipman's crimes. He is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients. Shipman died on 13 January 2004, after hanging himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison the day before his 58th birthday. ==Early life and career== Harold Frederick Shipman was born on the Bestwood council estate in Nottingham, England, the second of the four children of Vera (Brittan) and Harold Frederick Shipman, Sr., a lorry driver. His working-class parents were devout Methodists.〔〔 Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of lung cancer when he was 17.〔''Born To Kill?'', Channel 5, 2 August 2012〕〔 Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside despite her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963.〔() The Early Life of Harold Shipman〕 On 5 November 1966, Shipman married Primrose May Oxtoby. They had four children. Shipman studied medicine at Leeds School of Medicine and graduated in 1970.〔 He started work at Pontefract General Infirmary in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1974 took his first position as a general practitioner (GP) at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. In 1975, he was caught forging prescriptions of pethidine (Demerol) for his own use. He was fined £600, and briefly attended a drug rehabilitation clinic in York. He became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde near Manchester, in 1977. Shipman continued working as a GP in Hyde throughout the 1980s and founded his own surgery at 21 Market Street in 1993, becoming a respected member of the community. In 1983, he was interviewed on the Granada Television documentary ''World in Action'' on how the mentally ill should be treated in the community.〔() 〕 A year after his conviction, the interview was rebroadcast on ''Tonight with Trevor McDonald''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Shipman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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