Shop owner collapses on pavement after being injected with stolen anaesthetic by nurse
Shop owner collapses on pavement after being injected with stolen anaesthetic by nurse
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Shocking footage shows the moment a shop owner falls to the ground after being injected with a deadly drug by an off-duty nurse. Darren Harris, 58, stole Rocuronium from the anaesthetic theatre at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, where he worked, before the "motiveless" attack in Northallerton on July 2. After buying some vinyl and taking it back to his car, he then walked back into record shop, called Betterdaze.
But as the shop owner sat down and took Harris's cash for another purchase, the nurse stabbed him in the bottom with a hypodermic needle. Victim Gary Lewis, 65, stopped breathing and almost died in the attack. CCTV footage of the incident shows him dropping to the ground on the pavement outside as he loses consciousness.
On Tuesday afternoon, a jury at Leeds Crown Court found Harris guilty of attempted murder after deliberating for less than 25 minutes. He had already admitted administering a noxious substance at an earlier hearing. During Harris' trial, prosecutor Richard Herrmann said Mr Lewis only survived the attack because he was able to make his way outside and tell people what had happened in the moments before he lost consciousness. He said his death would otherwise have likely have been put down to "natural causes", and described the incident as a "manifestation of two of the greatest human fears - an attack from a complete stranger in broad daylight, and the victim being left unable to communicate while still hearing everything that was going on around them".
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