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John Bodkin Adams
12 quotes
“Easing the passing of a dying person isn't all that wicked. She wanted to die. That can't be murder. It is impossible to accuse a doctor.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That was very wrong... I have had God's forgiveness for it.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want money. What use is it?”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know what you mean. I don't keep a record.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will see you in heaven.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She might be violent.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 relativ…
“Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Mrs Thomas' cook on 21 November 1952. The patient died the following night.
“The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 i…
“An anonymous poem "Adams and Eves" circulated at the time of Adams' arrest finished:”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A mercenary mercy killer who was prepared to sell death.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The trial judge Lord Justice Patrick Devlin in his 1985 book on the case.
“You do realise, doctor, that you have killed her?”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source