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'Twisted' anaesthetist found guilty of killing 12
The Guardian
|December 19, 2025
A French anaesthetist described by prosecutors as “Dr Death” has been found guilty of intentionally poisoning 30 patients and killing 12 over almost a decade as a top medic.
Frédéric Péchier, 53, once seen by colleagues as a “star anaesthetist”, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after prosecutors said he was “one of the biggest criminals in the history of the French legal system”.
The state prosecutor Christine de Curraize said Péchier was a serial killer who was “highly twisted” and had tampered with colleagues’ paracetamol bags or anaesthesia pouches to poison patients.
This story is from the December 19, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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