Investigation launched after UK medics accused of child euthanasia
Published: February 28th, 2014
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ordered an urgent investigation into claims that doctors in the UK have illegally ended the lives of sick children through the administration of a lethal overdose.
The accusations were made by retired GP and assisted suicide campaigner, Michael Irwin, who has admitted to helping a number of people to die at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Zurich.
Responding to the claims, Dr Peter Saunders of Care Not Killing said: "There may be nothing in this. But if a doctor has intentionally taken the life of a child in the UK, then that is murder because euthanasia is illegal under British law."
