Nurse jailed for murder is refused Supreme Court

A Leeds nurse who was jailed for life for the murders of four elderly patients and attempting to murder a fifth will not be allowed to take his case to the Supreme Court, judges have ruled.

- by Nicola Adam

Colin Campbell, formerly known as Colin Norris, was found guilty in 2008 of killing Doris Ludlam, Bridget Bourke, Irene Crookes and Ethel Hall. They were inpatients on orthopaedic wards where Campbell worked in Leeds in 2002 before they died, and had developed severe, unexplained hypoglycaemia.

Campbell, originally from Glasgow, denied any wrongdoing and said he did nothing to cause hypoglycaemia in any of the patients.