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Doctor under criminal investigation

Doctor under criminal investigation

Daily Mail/Right to Life

A Dutch doctor who was reprimanded for administering a lethal injection to an elderly woman with dementia despite her ‘resistance’ is under a criminal investigation, it was reported in July.

An inquiry into the 74-year-old woman’s death in 2016 revealed that the woman, who had Alzheimer’s, was surreptitiously given a coffee containing a sedative, and held down by her family as she struggled against the injection.