The Turku Court of Appeals has upheld a life sentence imposed on a nurse for murder and attempted murder. The nurse killed an elderly mentally disabled woman under her care and tried to kill a baby in the summer of 2007.
The 28-year-old woman has denied her guilt, and appealed the life sentence imposed by Tampere District Court in May last year.
In Wednesday’s decision, the court found that Katariina Pantila, formerly Lönnqvist, had administered an insulin injection to the eight-month-old baby of her sister-in-law at a family gathering in Ylöjärvi.
This resulted in serious hypoglycaemia, but the child was hospitalised and survive.
About a week later the nurse killed a seriously mentally disabled 79-year-old woman.
The court found that the crimes were serious, and that the defendant had committed them with serious consideration. She had done online searches concerning insulin, and she also had the access to the drug at work.
