SYDNEY — Doctor Brian CRICKETT, 63, was found guilty of murder today and jailed for 27 years, with a non-parole period of 20 years.
The “patient”, Crickett’s wife, wasn’t even a diabetic, nor his patient, rather a trusting wife, but her murdering husband injected with her with a lethal dose of fast-acting insulin for one sole purpose – to kill her. He must have been reading the dead mass-murderer’s Dr Harold Shipman’s guidebook.
He did it on a Thursday night – New Year’s eve 2009 – and went out to stay with his lover leaving his wife to die. By the time he returned and reported “finding her dead”, he knew there would be no autopsy over the weekend and by the Monday the insulin would have disappeared from her system.
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