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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. | ||
On 13 January 2004, Shipman committed 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<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>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. His [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class working class] parents were devout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist Methodists]. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer lung cancer] when he was 17. 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. | Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>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. His [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class working class] parents were devout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist Methodists]. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer lung cancer] when he was 17. 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. |