What was the profession of John Bodkin Adams, suspected of killing potentially hundreds of victims in the 50s?

John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983) was an Irish man who worked in Eastbourne as a GP. Adams was either very unlucky - as so many of his patients died in suspicious circumstances following large injections of sedatives, painkillers and other drugs while under his care - or very lucky, as he was named as the beneficiary of 132 patients' wills and amassed a collection of cars and a sizeable fortune.

Suspected of killing potentially more than 300 victims, in 1957 he stood trial for the murder of just one - Edith Morrell - and was acquitted after a mere 45 minutes of jury deliberation. He was struck off the Medical Register after being found guilty of various other offences such as prescription fraud, lying on cremation forms, obstructing a police search and failing to keep a dangerous drugs register but, rather bizarrely, was reinstated in 1961.