A German former nurse who has admitted killing over 30 hospital patients with lethal injections in a thrill-seeking game to try to revive them apologised on Thursday to relatives of the victims.
“I am honestly sorry,” the 38-year-old said at his trial, where he so far faces three murder charges, adding that he had usually acted on impulse when he injected patients with lethal drug doses. “Usually the decision to do it was relatively spontaneous,” the defendant, who was identified only as Niels H under Germany’s strict court reporting rules, said in his first comments to the court.