The doctor killed her with a morphine injection. As she lay dying, Shipman then asked neighbour Sheila Ward to pack clothes for Mrs Turner as she needed to go to hospital.

Shipman later claimed Mrs Turner died from diabetes. After exhumation, Mrs Turner's body was found to contain morphine.

He then pretended to cancel it when it was clear the 77-year-old dancing teacher was dead. Phone records show no such calls were made.

Shipman said she died of pneumonia. Her medical records were found in a carrier bag in his garage.

Shipman said the 59-year-old had died of heart failure. A pathologist found no evidence of severe heart problems and found cause of death to be morphine poisoning.

Shipman told police and his receptionist conflicting stories of how she had died. The court heard how the GP had considered Mrs Lomas a "nuisance", because she was such a regular attender at the surgery.

He joked about having a sign over seats in the waiting room saying "Reserved for Ivy Lomas".

He then altered her medical records to hide her cause of death. Mrs Grimshaw's body was exhumed and a pathologist found high levels of morphine.

He told her son that Mrs Quinn had phoned him saying she thought she'd had a stroke. The doctor said she was dead by the time he arrived at her home.

Phone records show no such call was made. Nor was there any evidence that Mrs Quinn had suffered from problems he said she had.

After injecting the 81-year-old with morphine on 9 December, 1997, he claimed her death was due to heart disease.

Shipman also said he had received a call to attend Mrs Wagstaff - but records show no such call was made and no evidence of heart disease was found.

Experts founds Shipman had altered Mrs Pomfret's records, in the hour before her body was discovered, to generate a backdated history of heart disease.

A pathologist found excessive morphine levels in her exhumed body.

Dr Shipman said he had called an ambulance; when Mrs Nuttall was found to be dead he pretended to make another call to cancel it.

Phone records showed the GP had neither ordered nor cancelled an ambulance.

Dr Shipman said she had died of a massive stroke and there was no need for a post mortem.

Police computer experts found he had made 10 changes to her medical records in the two hours before her body was found to support his diagnosis.

Shipman murdered her using diamorphine, before reporting that her sudden death had been caused by a brain tumour.

He then altered her medical records to suggest her cancer had spread to her brain. But a cancer specialist who had seen her a month earlier told the court there were no signs that her cancer had returned.

After a cursory examination of Mrs Mellor, Shipman claimed she had died of coronary thrombosis - despite the fact she was fit enough to go on a two-hour walk only weeks before her death.

After poisoning her with morphine, Shipman altered her medical records to make it look like she had complained to him of chest pains.

The GP did not bother to examine Mrs Melia before issuing a death certificate for pneumonia aggravated by emphysema.

A pathologist later found evidence of morphine but not of serious lung problems.

When her body was exhumed one month later, high amounts of morphine were found. There was no record of any blood sample having been taken and Shipman also falsified written and computer records to make it look as though Mrs Grundy was a drug abuser.

Shipman was also charged with faking Mrs Grundy's will, changing it to look as though she had left all her �400,000 estate to him.

Police said the 'will' was typed on a typewriter found at Dr Shipman's office and that the signatures of Mrs Grundy and the witnesses had been forged.