17 | Deacon of Death - Ivo Poppe

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🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A nurse dubbed the Deacon of Death has been jailed for 27 years over the 'mercy killings' of five patients- including his own mother.

Ivo Poppe, 61, was found guilty of the murders of his 90-year-old mother, his 80-year-old father-in-law, two great-uncles aged 79 and 81 and another patient aged 79.

Poppe told a court that he was "very sorry" for what he had done.

He said his victims had not asked for help dying but said his only motivation was to make their deaths less painful.

The Roman Catholic deacon and nurse was sentenced by a court in Bruges in the western Belgian province of West Flanders.

Public prosecutors had demanded life in prison but the judge accepted that there were mitigating factors such as Poppe's bad health, difficult youth, previously clean record and small risk of re-offending.

He was acquitted of a sixth murder charge.

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0:00.0	They found a diary. A death diary.
0:05.3	Welcome guys to TalkBirds to me, your favorite true crime comedy caught in pod.
0:17.1	I think that you just stay as I am.
0:20.4	Yeah, yeah. Oh, natural.
0:23.1	Natural. Oh, what a beautiful sound.
0:27.6	It is. It truly is. Oh, it's going to be good. All right, John, why don't you tell
0:34.2	us what our clues were tonight? I only told you one clue.
0:37.3	I feel like we have to say that let walk belled and waffles were the other clue.
0:42.2	Yeah. Well, Belgium, Belgium was just, I just wanted to eat Belgian waffles. I didn't
0:47.3	really want that. So does Belgium have nothing to do with the story? It does.
0:52.6	Okay. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. So the clue don't think Belgium has anything
0:58.2	to do with the story? I think that someone gets shot at a waffle house. What? That actually
1:03.4	happened here a couple months ago. The clue is diocese. Yeah. So they could have been
1:08.5	a member of the diocese of wherever. Okay. It is in Belgium. Nicole's going to Belgium
1:14.0	tomorrow. I am leaving us. So I thought I'd do a special belled
1:18.3	John episode. Well, thank you for the opportunity so that I can share some lots and lots of annoying
1:26.8	Belgian fun facts for you guys because she was third place in our school's geography
1:31.4	being. That's true. That's true. I also before I lived in Belgium for a year, I was a
1:38.9	political science major in the first polycyclass I had in college. We'd all had to pick a country
1:46.1	out of a hat and we had to write a series of papers on the political state of that country.
1:54.0	The country that I happened to draw out of a hat was Belgium. So I learned a lot during
1:58.0	my freshman fall year and then lived there my junior year. Did that influential choice
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