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Broadcaster Ray Gosling admits to killing partner
Man was in ‘terrible pain’ with Aids when Gosling smothered him with a pillow
Police are to investigate a claim made by Ray Gosling, the veteran BBC broadcaster, that he performed a mercy killing on a former partner dying of Aids. Gosling, 70, said in the course of a short documentary programme that he had smothered the man with a pillow.
The confession came in a 12-minute Inside Out programme presented by Marie Ashby. It was made in 2009 and finally broadcast in the East Midlands last night.
Gosling said he was visiting the hospital, where his partner was in "terrible pain", when a doctor told him there was nothing more that could be done. Gosling asked the doctor to leave them alone. Once he was gone, "I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead".
When the doctor returned, Gosling told him: "He's gone". Nothing more was ever said, Gosling claimed.
He gave no information to identify the man. Asked by presenter Ashby if he had any regrets, he said: "Absolutely none. He was in terrible pain I was there and I saw it. It breaks you into pieces."
Asked whether the family of the dead man were aware of what he had done, Gosling responded: "Some know and some don't".
A spokeswoman for the BBC said producers had neither tried to "dissuade or persuade" Gosling from revealing his act of euthanasia. She said the BBC would co-operate fully with any investigation.
A spokesman for Nottinghamshire police said Gosling's confession would "have to be looked into". ·
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This man is going to prison. He admits on air that he committed manslaughter, on someone who had given him permssion, he says? He says, that the unnamed doctor knew what was going on and gave tacit approval? Tacit approval, that is the type of approval where no words are involved, words which would prove accessory to manslaughter? Mr Gosling is going to carry the can alone.