The Traitors fans have declared ‘TV is back’ after faithful Kasim complained he was being compared himself to one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers. After the third episode of the BBC show aired, Harold Shipman was trending on X after an ‘intense’ showdown between Kasim, Joe and Jake.
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Kasim was defending himself during the roundtable after he was bafflingly accused of being a traitor because he is a doctor and ‘nice’. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.
![[0430 HEALTH Shipman...File photo of serial killer doctor Harold Shipman (Committed suicide January 2004). Families whose dead relatives were patients of Shipman were Saturday January 6th, 2001, left questioning whether their loved ones were victims of the former GP in the wake of a report claiming those murdered could number 297. Shocked residents in the areas were Shipman practised were coming to terms with the enormity of the report, which found the Greater Manchester GP, convicted last year of murdering 15 female patients, had death rates way in excess of similar doctors. It means he may have murdered one patient for every month of his 24-year career as a family doctor.The report has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the police. See PA Story HEALTH Shipman. PA Photos....a]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IP_1204086-eec3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Up Next. He said: ‘The fact that I have a job is not a reason to vote for me.’. After they protested, Kasim hit back: ‘Literally you just said, “The doctor thing makes sense. You save lives during the day, you kill people at night.”. ‘You’re basically calling me Harold Shipman.’.
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Shipman was a GP who took the lives of an estimated 250 of his patients over two decades before being caught. He was sentenced to a whole life term in prison in 2000 before his suicide four years later. On X, Traitors fans reacted to Kasim’s unexpected reference to Shipman.
