Nurse accused of killing six patients “to lighten workload”

A former nurse charged with the murder of six patients at a hospital in Rumburk, north Bohemia, carried out the killings in order to lighten her workload, according to the indictment in her trial. Věra Marešová, who is 50, is accused of administering deadly doses of potassium to five women and one man between 2010 and last year, when she was arrested after what was initially reported as a case of mercy killing of a terminally ill elderly patient. The Czech News Agency reported that court experts had ruled that the ex-nurse was not insane. She faces a life prison sentence if found guilty.

Author: Ian Willoughby