Were Scottish students inspired by Dr Death?

Mystery surrounds the deaths of two Scottish university students who were found dead in a hotel room in Ayr. It is thought that the pair died of a drugs overdose that was administered using a laptop computer.
 
But the families of 20-year-old Robert Miller and Jim Robertson, 19 have denied that they had a suicide pact and have insisted that their deaths were a tragic accident.
 
Media reports suggested that the friends, who were both studying maths and physics at Edinburgh University and came from Orkney, had rigged up a laptop computer which then injected them. They were found slumped in chairs facing each other at a room in the Ramada Jarvis hotel in Ayr.
 
It has now been claimed they were influenced by the idea of Australian euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke (above), who developed his so-called Deliverance Machine in the 1990s.  The device, a laptop fixed to a syringe driver, was outlawed in 1997, but not before it had been used to kill four terminally ill Australians with lethal injections.
 
Police have not confirmed how the two students died but they have said they are not treating their deaths as suspicious.
 
Last year Nitschke came to Britain for a 'euthanasia tour' of Britain - a week-long series of workshops championing assisted suicide in which he showed off his 'DIY suicide kit' and explained the different techniques he used. Among the cities he visited was Glasgow.
 
The deaths have sent shockwaves through the Orkney community and have raised questions about the 'self-help' suicide guides which have become easily available online. ·