A former nurse accused of killing 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany more than a decade ago has told a court as his trial opened that the charges against him are largely accurate. The current trial, which started with a minute's silence for the victims, is expected to last until May. Intentionally causing cardiac arrest

According to the indictment, Högel is accused of carrying out the murders between February 2000 and June 2005 in two hospitals in the northern German cities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. With a view to kill: Germany's worst serial killers The S-Bahn murderer Paul Ogorzow was convicted for 31 sexual assaults, the murder of eight women and attempted murder of six others in Nazi-era Berlin between 1940 and 1941. Investigators say Högel might have killed even more people but the potential victims have been cremated. In general, people serving life sentences are considered for parole after 15 years. One of the more than 100 co-plaintiffs in the trial, Christian Marbach, said it was a scandal that Hoegel had been allowed to kill with impunity for such an extended period of time without hospital authorities or law enforcement intervening.
German convicted serial killer and former nurse Niels Högel begins his third trial (previous convictions were in 2008 and 2015), this time in Oldenburg, for additional patient murders by administering fatal doses of medication between 1999–2005 which may include his assignment as one of Germany's worst serial killers since World War II. At the beginning of the trial, Högel confesses to the murder of 100 of his patients.