{"id":322537,"date":"2025-12-18T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:36:07","slug":"french-doctor-death-who-poisoned-patients-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322537\/","title":{"rendered":"French &#8216;Doctor Death&#8217; who poisoned patients jailed for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A court in the city of Besan\u00e7on in eastern France found Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier guilty of contaminating infusion bags with substances that caused cardiac arrest or hemorrhaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His youngest victim, a four-year-old child, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016. The oldest victim was 89.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You are Doctor Death, a poisoner, a murderer. You bring shame on all doctors,&#8221; said prosecutors last week. &#8220;You have turned this clinic into a graveyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-322537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}