EVIL SUICIDE CHATROOM NURSE GETS SLAP ON WRIST

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LOWEST of the low William Melchert-Dinkel who entered into false suicide pacts and persuaded people he met online to kill themselves has been given a year behind bars by a Minnesota judge.
The twisted former nurse trawled online chats posing as a suicidal female and then promised at least 10 people that they would die together. As a result he believed at least five people killed themselves after he gave the detailed instructions on how to do it.   

His two know victims were English man Mark Drybrough, 32,  who hung himself in 2005 and Nadia Kajouji, 18, of Brampton, Canada who jumped into a frozen river in 2008.
Drybrough's mom Elaine, 62, welcomed the news, telling The Sun: "When I look at it all together, I think it's quite good really. For someone who hasn't been in prison before, I should think a year in prison will make an impression.
"Somebody said to me, 'you must hate him', but I don't know really - it's difficult. I think he has learnt his lesson. It gives a message if there's other people doing that as well, that they don't necessarily get away with it."
Judge Thomas Neuville's sentence was less than the maximum 15 years Melchert-Dinkel could have gotten for each count.
Officially Melchert-Dinkel was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison - but stayed execution of that sentence, meaning Melchert-Dinkel do hard time in prison only if he violates terms of his probation, which includes the jail time.
He'll be on probation for 15 years.
Neuville compared Melchert-Dinkel's conduct to stalking, describing it as calculated, intentional, and fraudulent.
But he also said that while Melchert-Dinkel's conduct was directly related to the deaths, he wasn't the sole reason the victims took their lives.
Melchert-Dinkel wiped tears from his eyes as the judge sentenced him. In a statement read by his attorney, Terry Watkins, he apologized and said he felt shame and remorse.

SICK INTERNET SUICIDE NURSE MAY NOT GO TO JAIL

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AN evil nurse who trawled internet chat rooms and encouraged depressed people to kill themselves has been found guilty of aiding suicides but may see little or no jail time.    
William Melchert-Dinkel posed as a suicidal female nurse to win his victims' trust, then entered into false suicide pacts with them, offering detailed instructions on how they could take their own lives.   Prosecutor's said the 48-year-old was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims online.
Melchert-Dinkel, a former nurse from Fairbault, told police he did it for the "thrill of the chase."

He admitted participating in online chats about suicide with up to 20 people and entering into fake suicide pacts with about 10 people, five of whom he believed killed themselves.
In March of two counts of aiding suicide in the deaths of English man Mark Drybrough, 32,  who hung himself in 2005 and Nadia Kajouji, 18, of Brampton, Canada who jumped into a frozen river in 2008.
But despite facing a maximum penalty of 15-years behind bars under Minnesota state law and a $30,000 fine for each count worksheets prepared by probation officers as part of the pre-sentencing report point to much less - and presume that a prison sentence would be stayed.
Rice County District Court Judge Thomas Neuville, who convicted Melchert-Dinkel in March, will be the one who decides the sentence after reading the worksheets and hearing the recommendations of prosecutors and defense attorneys and any comments from the victims' families.
Defense attorney Terry Watkins doesn't dispute prosecutors' account but insists Melchert-Dinkel's activities were protected speech and did not rise to the level of a crime.
Watkins plans to appeal the convictions.