“A mercenary mercy killer who was prepared to sell death.”
The trial judge Lord Justice Patrick Devlin in his 1985 book on the case.
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“That was very wrong… I have had God's forgiveness for it.”
To police on being confronted about a forged prescription.
Source: Patrick Devlin, Easing the passing: The trial of Doctor John Bodkin Adams, London, The Bodley Head, 1985
“The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.”
When asked in 1956 why in February 1954 he had sat with patient Clara Neil Miller for forty minutes with her "bed clothes all off... and over the foot rail of the bed, her night gown up around her chest and the window in the room open top and bottom", while Adams read to her from the Bible.
“Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now.”
To Mrs Thomas' cook on 21 November 1952. The patient died the following night.
“I don't know what you mean. I don't keep a record.”
To police on being asked for his Dangerous Drugs Register during a police search.
John Bodkin Adams Quotes
To police on being told of the investigation into his actions.
Source: Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
“You do realise, doctor, that you have killed her?”
A nurse working with Adams, when a patient passed away after an injection.
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When asked in August 1939 why he injected elderly patient Agnes Pike with Morphine while another doctor was examining her in order to give a second opinion. The patient was being heavily sedated by Adams and her relatives had become concerned.
