Episode September 8, 2026 1 hr 20 min

Ben Geen: The Killer Nurse — Revisited

From Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast Always True Crime

In 2006, nurse Ben Geen was convicted of murdering two patients and seriously harming 15 others while working at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Prosecutors said Geen deliberately injected patients with potentially lethal drugs before reveling in the medical emergencies that followed. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years.

Geen has always maintained his innocence.

This week, Seeing Red revisits one of the most fascinating and unsettling medical murder cases we've covered.

Before the original episode begins, Mark returns with a new 10–15 minute update.

With the Lucy Letby case continuing to dominate headlines and raise difficult questions about how suspected medical murders are identified and investigated, Mark looks again at the evidence against Geen — and asks whether his conviction still feels as compelling as it once did.

He also explores the striking parallels between Geen and Letby; why hospital managers can appear reluctant to involve the police even when staff suspect a colleague may be harming patients; the extraordinary coincidence involving Geen and an actress playing a killer nurse in Holby City; and whether Mark's growing doubts about the Letby convictions have made him question Ben Geen's guilt too.

Plus, an unfortunate encounter between a syringe and Geen's jacket prompts Mark to revisit some highly questionable medical terminology from the original episode.

The original Seeing Red episode then follows, newly remastered and lightly edited.

Ben Geen: guilty beyond reasonable doubt — or could one of Britain's most notorious killer nurses actually be innocent?

Theme music by Dead Dog in Black Bag

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