Nurse faces jail for killing 8 residents

AFORMER nurse has been arrested and charged with murdering eight elderly residents under her care at retirement homes in Canada’s Ontario province, police said on Tuesday.

The alleged killings occurred between 2007 and 2014 at two private facilities – Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London – where the accused, Elizabeth Wettlaufer, worked.

The male and female victims aged 75 to 96 “were administered a drug”, Ontario provincial police detective superintendent Dave Truax told a televised press conference. “We’re not in a position at this time to comment further on the specifics of the drug as it forms part of the evidence that is now before the courts.” No motive was offered. Records from the College of Nurses show Wettlaufer registered as a nurse in 1995 but resigned on September 30, one day after police launched their investigation.