The Midazolam Murders
Background and resources
This Substack is a compilation of some of the best videos and articles for getting up to speed on the UK Midazolam Murders. A Knowledge in Depth article will follow.
Videos
Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Dr Luke Evans, MP, discussing euthanasia prior to the ‘first wave’ of COVID-19.
Dr John Campbell, a respected nursing lecturer has covered the Midazolam Murders in his popular YouTube series. Carefully sidestepping the censorship, he analyses the protocols that were put in place to triage and prioritise “care” during the pandemic.
Dr Chris Martenson, toxicologist, examines the evidence that Midazolam was used to euthanise patients who were not at the end of their lives. If this YouTube video is taken down, another copy is available here: The Midazolam Murders.
This update from Dr John Campbell, dated 24th April, 2024, discusses damning evidence that midazolam was used to carry out mass euthanasia in the UK. The report he cites is a pre-print. The link to the report is in the video description and—in case the video or the preprint are taken down—you’ll find the PDF in the Reports section below.
Further videos
Narrating the events in early 2020, Janet Ossebaard puts together a chilling outline of how the midazolam murders were carried out in her episode, COVID-19: The Midazolam Murders.
Jacqui Deevoy made a documentary describing how people were euthanised with midazolam and morphine in 2020. The murders happened again in 2021. The documentary features Stuart Wilkie, who lost both of his parents to the euthanaisia protocols put in place by the UK government. Stuart is now one of the UK’s leading experts on the Midazolam Murders. A Good Death: Midazolam
Former LBC journalist Maajid Nawaz interviews Stuart Wilkie in his episode On Midazolam and End of Life “Care” Pathways.
Lawyer Reiner Fuellmich interviews former Pfizer respiratory illness expert, Dr Mike Yeadon about the UK Midazolam Murders.
Maajid Nawaz interviews MP Andrew Bridgen and Stuart Wilkie about the Midazolam and Morphine End of Life “Care” Protocols for the Elderly. This is a recent video and the sound quality has some issues, but well worth the effort because of the disturbing revelations made.
Key documents
This laminated protocol outlined the new treatment regime for patients with COVID-19. It tells staff to use an initial dose of 2.5mg of midazolam. This is five times the normal starting dose. Furthermore, when morphine and midazolam are used together, their combined effect is far more potent than the sum of their individual effects. Together, they are a lethal combination. They should never be given to a person who has a respiratory illness and is struggling to breathe. In view of this, the line, “NB. Opioid and anxiolytics should not be withheld due to inappropriate concern about respiratory depression.” is an incitement to murder.
This Clinical Frailty Scale has been adopted by the NHS. It is used to decide when to implement End of Life “Care”, (previously the Liverpool Care Pathway). No food, no water, no oxygen, no resuscitation, no treatment, no medicine except drugs—typically midazolam and morphine—to hasten death.
The designer of the NHS End of Life “Care” protocol recommended that the threshold for implementing the protocol be lowered from 9 to 6.
At least one NHS Trust discusses lowering the threshhold to 5.
Palliative care document adopted by UK NHS Trusts. Note the range of Class 2 controlled drugs permitted to be given by lay carers “off label” via subcutaneous injection.
Reports
Sy, Wilson. (2024). Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic. 10.13140/RG.2.2.13654.42560.
Articles
“Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient”, Wikipedia, Accessed 18 March 2023
Stephen Adams and Holly Bancroft, “Did care homes use powerful sedatives to speed Covid deaths? Number of prescriptions for the drug midazolam doubled during height of the pandemic”, Daily Mail, 12 July 2020
Alice Fuller, “Drug Scandal—Care homes accused of using powerful sedatives to make coronavirus victims die more quickly as use rocketed 100%”, The Sun, 12 July 2020
Steve Daughty, “Hospitals bribed to put patients on pathway to death: Cash incentive for NHS trusts that meet targets on Liverpool Care Pathway” Daily Mail, 25 October 2012
Alan Blinder, “When a Common Sedative Becomes an Execution Drug”, The New York Times, 13 March 2017
Liliana Segura, “Ohio’s Governor Stopped an Execution Over Fears It Would Feel Like Waterboarding—Confronted with mounting evidence that midazolam causes excruciating pain, a judge warned that Ohio’s lethal injection protocol was likely unconstitutional.” The Intercept, 12 February 2019
“Problems Arise As Ohio Tries New Execution Procedure”, Death Penalty Information Centre, 17th January 2014 (accessed 19th March 2023)
My 90 year old father in law was admitted in January after a fall at home where he smashed his face on the wall. They put him on nil by mouth. He developed pneumonia. My suggestion of intravenous vitamin C ignored, no clear answer on whether he was getting his regular meds either. Within a week we got an almost incoherent call picking out the words "make him comfortable". By the time we got there he was in a side room unconscious and slipped away within minutes. I asked to see his file. They murdered him with Midazolam and Morphine.