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John Bodkin Adams Quotes

1899–1983 Northern Ireland

John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was an Irish-born British physician widely believed to have been a serial killer. He was tried in 1957 for the murder of one of his patients but controversially acquitted, while another charge of murder was withdrawn via a nolle prosequi - an act which the presiding judge described as an 'abuse of process' by the prosecutor Reginald Manningham-Buller.

Northern Ireland
Physicians

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Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now.

The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.

I don't know what you mean. I don't keep a record.

Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event.

Easing the passing of a dying person isn't all that wicked. She wanted to die. That can't be murder. It is impossible to accuse a doctor.

I don't want money. What use is it?

That was very wrong... I have had God's forgiveness for it.

I will see you in heaven.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Bodkin Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.