In January 2000, GP Harold Shipman was convicted of murdering 15 of his patients.
True crime fans will be given a disturbing insight into the crimes of Harold Shipman in a new documentary.
BBC Four has announced that filmmaker Chris Wilson will re-examine the case of the killer doctor in The Harold Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story. In the documentary, Wilson will meet friends and relatives of Shipman’s victim – some of whom will be speaking for the first time. The filmmaker will also be speaking to police officers involved in the case and lawyers and doctors who took part in the inquiry to ‘reveal a more complex picture than has been told before’ and to explore whether ‘deference to doctor’s authority and attitudes to the elderly’ led to Shipman remaining at large for so long.
Wilson said: ‘There have been many films about Harold Shipman. Most attempt to take us “inside-the-mind” of a serial killer. But none have fully explored the historical, cultural and social context that enabled a medical professional to take the lives of hundreds of trusting patients over more than two decades.‘It’s a chilling story about power, authority and an astonishing betrayal of trust – one that, for me, remains as pertinent today as it was twenty years ago.
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