A former nurse has pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of elderly patients in Ontario care homes.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, also entered a guilty plea in with six counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault, according to media reports.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Wettlaufer in October for a string deaths in two nursing homes spanning several years.<\/p>\n
Many victims’ relatives were in the courthouse for the plea.<\/p>\n
The former nurse admitted in a lengthy statement at Ontario Superior Court on Thursday that she fatally injected the victims with insulin, according to journalists who attended the hearing.<\/p>\n
The AFP wire service reported that Wettlaufer answered a simple “yes” when Justice Bruce Thomas asked if she had committed the premeditated murders.<\/p>\n
The court heard she had often struggled with strong feelings of anger.<\/p>\n
The London Free Press newspaper reported how Ms Wettlaufer described “that red surge” she felt before killing one patient.<\/p>\n
A video of her taped October confession to police was also played before the court during a long session that lasted until late in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Wettlaufer’s victims were between the ages 75 and 96 and were killed between 2007-14.<\/p>\n
“I have to forgive her, that’s the Christian thing to do,” Andrea Silcox, whose father died in 2007, told media outside the court in Woodstock, Ontario, before Wettlauffer arrived in court.<\/p>\n
Wettlaufer resigned from the College of Nurses of Ontario a day after police launched an investigation into the nursing home deaths in September.<\/p>\n
The murder victims were five women and three men and were all residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n
In January, police brought six additional charges – four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault – against Wettlaufer for incidents that took place in care homes between 2007-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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