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however the doctors he claimed had operated on him testified they had never met him. It was also revealed that Bouwer had told medical students that injecting someone between the toes with insulin was the perfect way to commit a murder. On 19 November 2001, the jury took less than two hours to find him guilty (at the time, one of the fastest murder verdicts in years) and he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 13 years. The sentence was increased to 15 years following an appeal by the Crown. Bouwer's appeal was denied. He has since been described as a
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church. The vicar was puzzled by Bouwer's behaviour and stated that the house seemed to have been disinfected. Significant levels of sedatives and insulin were found in her blood, and a further investigation showed they had been obtained via 11 forged prescriptions. Bouwer claimed he was suffering from cancer and depression and had obtained the drugs to take his own life by suicide.
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Zealand was an ideal place to commit the perfect murder. Bouwer claimed he had undergone treatment for cancer in a South African hospital;
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Annette, refused to sign her death certificate without a post-mortem. Bouwer objected to a post-mortem but was overruled. He claimed that his wife was Jewish and therefore had to be buried within 48 hours of dying, but her funeral was conducted in an Anglican
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Annette died, and believes he is innocent, stating, "He did not murder his wife and he is not a cold, calculating murderer. He's a very gentle man." His children, likewise, assert their belief that their mother died by suicide.
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The police found a string of email inquiries he had sent to hypoglycaemia experts, claiming he was a forensic psychiatrist. In particular he asked how likely an insulin injection was to be determined as the cause of death.
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