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After his trial the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipman_Inquiry Shipman Inquiry], chaired by Dame [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Smith_%28judge%29 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 direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients. | After his trial the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipman_Inquiry Shipman Inquiry], chaired by Dame [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Smith_%28judge%29 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 direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients. | ||
Shipman died on 13 January 2004, | Shipman died on 13 January 2004, after commiting suicide in his cell at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_Prison Wakefield Prison] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire West Yorkshire]. | ||
==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-4 [4]]</sup> in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham Nottingham], England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck lorry] driver.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-abcnews_5-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-abcnews-5 [5]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup> His [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class working class] parents were devout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist Methodists].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-abcnews_5-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-abcnews-5 [5]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup> Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer lung cancer]<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-7 [7]]</sup> when he was 17.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-independent1_8-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-independent1-8 [8]]</sup> Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi modus operandi]: in the later stages of her disease, she had [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine morphine] administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-9 [9]]</sup> | Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-4 [4]]</sup> in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham Nottingham], England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck lorry] driver.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-abcnews_5-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-abcnews-5 [5]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup> His [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class working class] parents were devout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist Methodists].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-abcnews_5-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-abcnews-5 [5]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup> Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer lung cancer]<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-7 [7]]</sup> when he was 17.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bookref1_6-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-bookref1-6 [6]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-independent1_8-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-independent1-8 [8]]</sup> Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi modus operandi]: in the later stages of her disease, she had [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine morphine] administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman#cite_note-9 [9]]</sup> | ||