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Nurse jailed for seven years for ill-treating patients

Catherine Hudson was convicted of drugging two patients on a hospital stroke unit to ‘keep them quiet’ but claimed she showed ‘nothing but care and devotion’

Andrea Downey - @journoandrea
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Head shot of Catherine Hudson provided by police, showing her looking directly at the camera with her face expressionless

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