Doctor acquitted of murdering cancer victim
- Title
- Doctor acquitted of murdering cancer victim
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
- TX Date
- 15 Mar 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:03:38
- Description
- Simon Israel reports on Dr Stephen Lodwig being acquitted of murdering a terminally ill cancer patient, Robert Spratley(?), after injecting too large a dose of painkillers in 1988. Includes comment from his solicitor Robert Summerling(?); crown prosecutor John Wilcox (over telephone); and General Manager of West Berkshire Health Authority, Michael Taylor.
- Contributors
- Michael Taylor; Simon Israel; Robert Summerling(?); John Wilcox
- Keywords
- Medical ethics; Homicide; Cancer; Trials; Doctors; Verdicts; Robert Spratley(?); Stephen Lodwig
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