The Horror and then the Horror

Horrible enough that Harold Shipman may responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. To make things worse is the AFP story reporting the deaths. This was an AP reporter that one would assume went to college/university to learn and master journalism, the bastard child of English.

How many mistakes do you count in the text below?

LONDON (AFP) - Harold Shipman, the family doctor who became Britain's worst-ever serial killer, may have killed 137 patients as a young trainee on top of the 215 killings already attributed to him, an enquiry revealed.

Shipman, who hanged himself aged 57 in his prison cell in January last year, is believed to have carried out some murders while a trainee hospital doctor in Yorkshire, northern England, between 1970 and 1974.

A new report by an inquiry set up to investigate Shipman's decades of murder will publish a report later this month "into 137 deaths that occurred between 1970 and 1974", a preliminary statement by the inquiry team said.

The official probe, led by High Court judge Dame Janet Smithwill, has previously concluded that Shipman was responsible for the deaths of at least 215 of his patients while he worked as a family doctor.

The victims, many elderly women, were killed by lethal injections of morphine over a 23-year period, either at Shipman's one-man practice in Manchester, in the north of England, or at their homes.

The most prolific serial killer ever to be convicted in Britain, Shipman was jailed for life in January 2000 on 15 sample counts of murder. He always denied his crimes.

Smithwill's inquiry team, which was set up following Shipman's conviction in court, will publish their findings about the possible earlier killings on January 27.

Entitled "Shipman: The Final Report", it is the sixth report to be published by the team.

The fifth report, published in December, lambasted Britain's medical watchdog, the General Medical Council, for "looking after their own" rather than protecting patients from bad doctors.