32 Facts About Benjamin Geen

Benjamin Geen was apprehended after staff at the hospital noticed that it was always when he treated patients, most of whom only had minor injuries such as dislocated shoulders, that they inexplicably had respiratory failures.

Benjamin Geen was found guilty at trial in 2006 and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years imprisonment.

Benjamin Geen has maintained his innocence but his multiple appeals have failed.

Benjamin Geen was known at Horton General Hospital as a nurse who always looked for action.

Colleagues noted that whenever patients unexpectedly fell ill Benjamin Geen was around, leading to their nicknaming him 'Ben Allitt'.

Benjamin Geen was himself described as someone who wanted to be the centre of attention.

Benjamin Geen had joined the army reserve and was said to want to "walk towards the action and not away from it".

Benjamin Geen was a self-acknowledged "thrill-seeker", and enjoyed the adrenaline rush of working in the casualty department on life or death cases.

Benjamin Geen said that there was a 'jinx' on him and that things tended to go wrong when he was around.

Benjamin Geen had previously been warned by hospital managers for turning up at the emergency department without authority, and was instructed to stop drifting there from the minor injuries unit where he was posted.

Benjamin Geen had been reprimanded for wearing nurse's epaulettes while he was unqualified to do so.

However, Benjamin Geen then took over as day nurse and 35 minutes later the man suffered an unexplained respiratory arrest and struggled to breathe, causing him to die.

Notably, the latter patient was fine both before and after Benjamin Geen treated him, having been well enough to drive himself to the hospital and making a full recovery after his respiratory arrest as soon as doctors put him on a life support machine.

Crucially, the woman was a former nurse herself, and was able to credibly describe in full what had happened and how Benjamin Geen had been attending to her when she inexplicably fell ill.

Benjamin Geen was the first person on the scene and immediately knew what the issue was.

Colleagues began to notice that it was always when Benjamin Geen was on duty and attending patients that people were falling unexpectedly ill, and noted that he always automatically knew why they were ill and what to do to remedy the situation.

Benjamin Geen was arrested as he arrived at the hospital to work on 9 February 2004.

Benjamin Geen had on his person a syringe with the potentially lethal paralytic vecuronium inside, despite it being strictly forbidden for nurses to take syringes or such drugs out of the hospital.

Benjamin Geen refused to tell the officers what the drug was when they apprehended him, further raising suspicion.

Benjamin Geen claimed that he had accidentally taken the syringe home in a pocket of his scrubs after a chaotic day.

Benjamin Geen was formally accused of two murders and of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent upon 16 patients.

One nurse testified how Benjamin Geen appeared "elated" when one of the victims went into respiratory arrest, and said "oh no, here we go again" as the patient began to fight for breath despite being in a good condition minutes earlier.

In court, Benjamin Geen maintained his innocence and vowed to appeal his conviction.

Criminologist and detective Dr Graham Hill concluded that Benjamin Geen had hero syndrome.

Benjamin Geen's case was reviewed by lawyers and volunteers from the London Innocence Project.

Benjamin Geen's family believes he is the victim of a "witch-hunt" by officials seeking to avoid the mistakes made in the case of Dr Harold Shipman.

The court observed that the evidence against him was overwhelming and concluded that any attempt to use statistical evidence to demonstrate Benjamin Geen's innocence was flawed, declaring:.

High-profile detective Colin Sutton, best known for leading the Metropolitan Police investigations into Levi Bellfield and Delroy Grant, has publicly stated that Benjamin Geen is likely guilty, highlighting that his defence team's argument that statistical clusters of respiratory arrests are not uncommon does not explain why all the arrests happened while nurse Benjamin Geen was on duty tending to the patients.

Benjamin Geen has pointed to the fact that there was a large amount of other evidence against him which the statistics could not account for.

In 2023 lawyers acting for Benjamin Geen said there was new evidence that undermined the safety of his convictions.

Mark McDonald, a barrister representing Benjamin Geen, said he would present the new statistical evidence to the CCRC and expectated that they would refer the case to the Court of Appeal.

Benjamin Geen's case has been the subject of multiple television programmes:.