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‘Resuscitation Rambo’ Killer Nurse Jailed For Life For Murder Of 85 Patients (PICTURED)

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A former nurse declared Germany’s worst peacetime killer has been given a life sentence for murdering 85 patients.

Niels Hogel, one of the most prolific serial killers in the world, injected drugs into patients to induce cardiac arrest, and then tried to resuscitate them because he loved the attention it brought, prosecutors said.

The 42-year-old was originally accused of murdering 100 patients, and was already serving a life sentence for two killings when he was jailed for a further 85 on Thursday, June 6, 2019.

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Niels Högel: He did not think of quitting between his actions. | Mohssen Assanimoghaddam / dpa

German officials believe Hogel – dubbed “Resuscitation Rambo” by his colleagues – may have killed as many as 300 patients.

Hogel carried out the shocking and “incomprehensible” crimes at two hospitals in northern Germany – in Oldenberg and Delmenhorst – between 2000 and 2005.

The serial killer was given another life sentence a day after he addressed his victims’ relatives and friends in court in Oldenburg.

He told the court: “I would like to sincerely apologise to every single individual for all that I have subjected them to over the years.”

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Niels Hoegel: before his second trial the nurse told a forensic investigator he was “addicted to this feeling of having done something good, a feeling that sometimes lasted days”. | Carmen Jaspersen/AFP/Getty Images

Hogel is said to have chosen his victims, aged between 34 and 96.

Some were in bad health while others were on the mend at medical centres in in Lower Saxony, Deutsche Welle reported.

A former colleague told the German newspaper Bild that Hogel “always pushed everyone else aside” when resuscitating patients.

Colleagues called him “Resuscitation Rambo”.

The killing spree came to an end when fellow nurses caught Hogel manipulating a patient’s syringe driver.

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