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The Inquests

Pensioner WAS killed by Shipman

A NEW inquest into a patient of ex-Hyde GP Harold Shipman ruled the pensioner was murdered.

The fresh inquest was ordered into the death of Marjorie Hope-Waller following an application to the High Court, in the light of fresh evidence aired at the Shipman Inquiry.

Mrs Hope-Waller's was the only inquest where coroner John Pollard had delivered an open verdict, in the light of available evidence before the inquiry sat.

Joan Dean

JOAN Dean was the second, and last, patient whose inquest recorded an open verdict before the inquiry overruled this with an unlawful killing decision in 2002.