The court in Arnhem subsequently concluded the case by declaring her innocent of the murders, a course of action urged on the court by the public prosecutors.

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Professor Gill, who has lived in the Netherlands for 35 years, has been prominent in a campaign to have the case overturned. Actually, as any statistician can tell you, unexpected clusters of cases are exactly what you should expect when events are completely random and completely independent of one another. Despite the blood test evidence, McTavish claimed during the 15-day trial that she had only injected the patient with a placebo of sterile water. The odds, whatever they are, cannot prove guilt or innocence, but the contention of her supporters, who include the philosopher of science Ton Derkson and his sister, the doctor Metta de Noo, is that the original statistical claims led the police and the courts to conclude that any verdict other than guilty was unthinkable. The Trail Went Cold is a weekly true crime podcast which explores baffling unsolved mysteries and cold cases.Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image. Jesse started his apprenticeship as a 15-year-old at the iconic Beach Hotel in Byron Bay where he honed his skills before moving to Sydney in 2000. Even where there have been relatives visiting the hospital, they can find it difficult to challenge the authorities. Geen, 34, a former army reservist, was convicted in 2006 of injecting patients with potentially lethal drugs, causing them to stop breathing, so that he could “satisfy his lust for excitement” by reviving them. What appears to have happened in both cases is described by Professor Hutton as “diagnostic suspicion bias”.