Nurse allegedly killed 38 patients because they annoyed her.

By SHAUNA ANDERSON

Update:

Disturbing photos have emerged Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali, 42, posing with a patient — whom a colleague claims was dead at the time.

According to Buzzfeed, police initially reported that Poggiali had taken a selfie with a recently deceased patient. But over the weekend, it was revealed that the photos were taken by her colleague.

They were then leaked to the media.

Poggiali’s lawyer has denied the patient in the photos was deceased — but her colleague Sara Pausini claims that Poggiali intimidated her into taking the photos of her smiling with a deceased patient, she told Corriere Della Sera.

Previously, Mamamia reported:

Daniela Poggiali’s colleagues often thought she was cold and calculating.

But they looked past it as she was always eager to work.

While they were often shocked by some of her seemingly chilling comments about their patients, they never expected this.

42-year-old Daniela Poggiali was arrested over the weekend for the suspected murder of up to 38 patients she had treated at an Italian hospital.

The reason cited for the serial killings was because Daniela Poggiali found the patients or their relatives “annoying.”

Poggiali who lives in the Italian town of Lugo in Northeastern Italy was already under investigation for the death of a 78-year old patient, Rosa Calderoni who died suddenly with suspiciously high blood levels of potassium, which can provoke cardiac arrest.

That case triggered suspicions and led authorities to comb through other deaths that occurred when Poggiali was working.

According to The New York Post Italian police found a selfie that the nurse had taken of herself on her mobile phone in which she gave a thumbs up next to a patient who had died just moments before.

There are also reports that she had joked in the past about giving high does of potassium to seriously ill patients.

Chief prosecutor Alessandro Mancini told a press conference that the case was shocking.

“I can assure you in that all my professional years of seeing shocking photos, there were few such as these,” she said.

Details about the strange behaviour of Poggiali are now emerging with a former  colleagues saying that the accused nurse was reported at one stage for giving laxatives to patients at the end of her shift to make work tougher for nurses working after her.

The investigation into 38 deaths linked to Poggiali has shocked not just the town but even the police.

Prosecutor Alessandro Mancini said that when police arrested her Poggiali seemed “unperturbed”.

We will keep you updated on the charges Daniela Poggiali faces.