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."