Primrose Shipman: Lived with Dr Death Harold Shipman for 33 years
Loyal wives such as
Primrose Shipman are not unusual, as one in three serial killers is married.
Then there's
Primrose Shipman who wants to sue the prison service for not noticing the signs that her beloved hubby Harold was about to top himself.
Primrose Shipman was present for the resumption of the inquest into the death of the 57-year-old, who is believed to have killed about 250 of his patients.
West Yorkshire coroner David Hinchliff asked
Primrose Shipman at Leeds crown court: 'You had no previous indication at all of any intention by your husband to harm himself?'
Primrose Shipman has asked for a pounds 10,000 hoard of jewellery to be given to her after the items were seized from the garage at the Shipman family home when the doctor was first arrested.
Primrose Shipman has asked for a pounds 10,000 hoard of jewellery to be returned to her after the items were seized from the garage at the Shipman family home when the doctor was first arrested.
Primrose Shipman told the authorities of his last request when she went to view the mass murderer's body after he hanged himself in his prison cell.
Primrose Shipman left her cottage in Walshford, North Yorkshire, at 11.15am to travel to the Medico-Legal Centre in Sheffield, accompanied by two officers from West Yorkshire Police.
Primrose Shipman has so far only made a general statement to the Shipman Inquiry, which is being held at Manchester Town Hall, and refuses to be speak publicly in any more detail.
Primrose Shipman was giving evidence yesterday on the first day of the inquest into the death of Shipman in his cell at Wakefield Prison.
Primrose Shipman, 55, believes her GP husband, found hanged in jail after being convicted of killing 15 patients, was murdered.