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Article: HAROLD SHIPMAN GOES TO GRAVE WITH THE SECRETS OF 215 MURDERS: Hid behind window curtain.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2004
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HAROLD Shipman hid himself behind a window curtain where he was found hanging.
Prison Officers Association general secretary Brian Caton said the serial killer was checked frequently through the night and was alive and well at 5am.
But,at the 6 am check, Mr Caton said: ``He'd hung himself from a ligature, thought to be strips of bedding,and had held the curtains around himself so no one could see him.''
Mr Caton added: ``It would appear that Shipman settled in well at Wakefield. He hadn't been on a suicide watch at all and wasn't on a suicide watch at the time that he took his life.
``He was housed in a normal wing in a normal ...