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Image Credit: Metro [Dated:21/01/2025 NURSE NEEDLE ATTACK COURT CASE Pictured is victim Gary Lewis of Betterdaze record shop and vintage attic on Zetland Street, in Northallerton SEE STORY of Darren Harris a specialist anaesthetic nurse injected a shop owner with a potentially deadly drug in a random bid to kill the stranger, jurors have heard. Darren Harris, 57, administered a dose of Rocuronium into Gary Lewis's buttock, using a needle and syringe, at the Betterdaze record store in picturesque Northallerton in North Yorkshire in July last year. Leeds Crown Court heard the drug, a muscle relaxant that can stop breathing, rendered Mr Lewis "completely paralysed" and unable to communicate in any way. While emergency services battled to save Mr Lewis's life as he lay on the pavement outside the shop, Harris was repeatedly asked what he had injected him with. Pictured is victim Gary Lewis See copy by North News]
Darren Harris, 57, injected Betterdaze record shop owner Gary Lewis’ buttock with Rocuronium in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, last July 2. The muscle relaxant, which Harris had stolen from James Cook Hospital in Teesside, where he worked, left Lewis ‘completely paralysed’ on the cobbles outside where he had slid off his chair.
Image Credit: Metro [Dated:21/01/2025 NURSE NEEDLE ATTACK COURT CASE Darren Harris a specialist anaesthetic nurse injected a shop owner with a potentially deadly drug in a random bid to kill the stranger, jurors have heard. Darren Harris, 57, administered a dose of Rocuronium into Gary Lewis's buttock, using a needle and syringe, at the Betterdaze record store in picturesque Northallerton in North Yorkshire in July last year. Leeds Crown Court heard the drug, a muscle relaxant that can stop breathing, rendered Mr Lewis "completely paralysed" and unable to communicate in any way. While emergency services battled to save Mr Lewis's life as he lay on the pavement outside the shop, Harris was repeatedly asked what he had injected him with. Pictures taken (Tuesday 02 July 2024) after Gary Lewis had been stabbed with a needle on Zetland Street in Northallerton. See copy by North News]
Lewis was fully aware of what was happening around him, but he couldn’t speak or respond before he lost consciousness, stopped breathing and went into respiratory arrest. ‘I thought I was going to die’, he told the jury at Leeds Crown Court. ‘It was the most frightening experience I have ever had.’.
As emergency services worked to save his life, police repeatedly asked a ‘calm’ Harris what was inside the syringe. ‘Nothing’, he replied. Bodycam footage recorded the moments before his arrest. ‘So there’s nothing in that needle?’, an officer asked.
‘I haven’t got a needle’, Harris said. ‘I had a 10ml syringe with water, and I have just squirted the water, it was water.’. A female office was then heard asking: ‘Are you sure that in that syringe there was nothing other than water?’. ‘Just water’, Harris replied.
