Drug-addict nun murder suspect
NZPA-Reuter Dendermonde, Belgium A nun from a nursing order is suspected of killing up to 10 elderly patients to get their belongings and sell them to support her morphine habit the police have said in Dendermonde, Belgium. Cecile Blombeek, aged 44, known as Sister Godfrida in the Apostolic Order of the Holy Joseph, was arrested last week on theft, drug, and forgery charges. The police said she had
:, become addicted to mori phine eight years ago after surgery for a brain tumour, , and that she had been dis- , missed as matron of a geri- ’ atric ward at a clinic last ’ year and sent to a private I clinic for detoxification. The authorities said they ; had ordered the disinterment - of the bodies of 10 of Sister Godfrida’s patients who died , between January and Augi ust, 1977. Autopsies will be per--1 formed to establish whether I they died of insulin injections, which can be fatal I in excessive doses.
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