There are so many developments on the euthanasia front in the UK this week that they are best grouped together.

Former BBC producer Ray Gosling made the dramatic claim earlier this year that he had euthanased one of his numerous gay lovers more than 20 years ago. “I killed someone once. He was a young chap, he had been my lover and he got AIDS… I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. The doctor came back and I said ‘He's gone’. Nothing more was ever said.”

There was a great hoo-haa in the media over his teary reminiscences and the police immediately interrogated him. It turns out that probably Mr Gosling did no such thing and he will be charged, not with murder, but with wasting police time. A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said there is “sufficient evidence” to prove he was lying. The Police are… click here to read whole article and make comments