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Shipman 'told to hang himself'

Matthew Beard
Tuesday 12 April 2005 19:00 EDT

The inquest into the death of Harold Shipman heard yesterday that a prison officer told the notorious GP to "go and hang himself".

The inquest into the death of Harold Shipman heard yesterday that a prison officer told the notorious GP to "go and hang himself".

Fellow inmate David Smith told a jury at Leeds Crown Court that Shipman was his best friend in Wakefield Prison, where the struck-off doctor was found hanging in his cell in January last year.

Smith said he overheard a conversation between Shipman and an inmate about what a prison officer had said to him. "An officer told him to go and hang himself and if he didn't know how, he'd be shown."

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