Where healing hands learnt to kill
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Where healing hands learnt to kill
Image: © Peter Thwaite Taken: 23 Dec 2008
On Burnley Road the disused Abraham Omerod Medical Centre lies abandoned. In the mid 1970s the mass murderer Harold Frederick Shipman started in general practice at the centre. In addition to stealing drugs it is believed that it is here that he started murdering his patients. The Independent article (7 Jan 2001): http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/where-healing-hands-learnt-to-kill-702589.html Shipman went on to commit the majority of his murders from his surgery in Hyde, Cheshire that is featured in geographs by Gerald England: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1128145 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1005040
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Image Location
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53.715436
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-2.097239