NZ police now investigating NZ euthanasia case

Police are investigating an admission by an Auckland-born scientist that he gave his cancer-riddled mother a lethal dose of morphine.

Sean Davison admitted giving the overdose and said he did not fear being charged with a crime. “I have no regrets about what I did. I did the right thing, the compassionate thing,” he told the Herald on Sunday.

Davison had been scheduled to return later this week to South Africa, where he is a professor of biotechnology at the University of the Western Cape, but he has now brought forward his flights.

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