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Dr Harold Shipman kills on the same day two years in a row

A stock photograph showing rows of files in a medical office.
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87-year-old Henrietta Walker, from Hyde, died at the hands of Shipman on 25 November 1994, and exactly a year later, the much younger 43-year old-Konrad Ovcar-Robinson, also from Hyde, was similarly killed by the doctor.

In between, Shipman had killed another 27 patients. This is a death toll that most serial killers do not achieve over their entire history.

It would be another three years before the deadly doctor would be arrested...