Hoegel believed to be the murderer with the highest number of casualties in post-war German history. (Credit : getty image)

Killing 85 of his patients with injections, former nurse in Germany apologized

Niels Hoegel (41), a former German nurse who killed 85 patients was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court on Thursday (06/06/2019). He is believed to be the murderer with the highest number of casualties in post-war German history.

Reporting from Der Spiegel, German court judge, Sebastian Buehrmann, sentenced him for assuming Hoegel's actions were intolerable. He also mentioned that the murder carried out by Niels Hoegel was an act that could not be understood. 85 patients killed by Hoegel were around 34-96 years old. But he was released from 15 other murder charges due to lack of evidence.Sfter making a sentencing for him, the court then banned him from practicing lifelong care.

Previously Hoegel was arrested in 2005. At that time he was caught in the middle hand giving a dead injection to one of the patients at the hospital where he worked at Delmenhorst. After further investigation, the patient who was killed by Hoegel was not only one. Finally he was jailed in 2015 because he was found guilty of murdering six of his patients.

In the previous trial, Hoegel had asked for forgiveness from family of the victim for his horrible actions. He sincerely apologized for all the mistakes he had made so far.