On Monday, a Munich court sentenced a 27-year-old male nurse to life in jail for murdering two patients by purposefully supplying unprescribed medications so he could be "left in peace."
According to a spokesman for the Munich district court in southern Germany, the nurse, identified only as Mario G., was also found guilty on six charges of attempted murder.
During his trial, Mario G. admitted to injecting sedatives and other medication combinations into patients while working in a Munich hospital's recovery area.
In November 2020, three attempts were made on the German scholar and writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger, but he escaped.
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Enzensberger died of natural causes two years later, at 93.
Mario G.'s actions claimed the lives of two patients who were 80 and 89 years old.
According to prosecutors, Mario G. used the medications to avoid being alone during his shift, when he was frequently hung over.
The case was reminiscent of the notorious German nurse Niels Hoegel, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for murdering 85 patients in his care.
Between 2000 and 2005, Hoegel, Germany's most prolific serial murderer, murdered patients with fatal injections before being apprehended.
In 2020, a Polish healthcare worker was sentenced to life in prison in Munich for using insulin to kill at least three people.
