Code 1: Minute by Minute: July 26

Observational series Code 1: Minute by Minute is back with a new episode on Seven, “The Bedside Murders.”

Some of the footage of this nursing home fire may be distressing.

In November 2011, one of Australia’s worst mass murders happened in a quiet suburban nursing home. A drug addicted male nurse who had been caught stealing prescription drugs meant for the elderly people in his care, decided the best way to ‘destroy the evidence’ was to burn the nursing home down in the middle of the night. Frail residents were trapped, many couldn’t move because of their ailments and died in their beds. It was a shocking sight for the first responders as everyone, including neighbours, rushed to get as many of the elderly residents out before the fire engulfed the entire building.

8pm Sunday on Seven.