A BBC presenter who confessed on television to carrying out a mercy killing on a lover who was dying from Aids will refuse to co-operate with a police investigation.
Ray Gosling said that he would not tell detectives the name of the young partner he claimed to have smothered with a pillow as he lay in hospital more than 20 years ago.
I don’t believe this to be true at all, I suspect it was made up to “jazz” the programme up and give it some controversy, even just for a second allowing that the statement was true, would the BBC be able to broadcast what is tantamount to a murder confession without informing the police first, The BBC is after a public body.
In an interview I saw last night on Sky news Mr Gosling implicated a Doctor by saying the Doctor left him alone with his lover and then with a nudge and a wink hinted he should do it and he would “be back in half hour”.
Twenty years is not that long a ago and it would be fairly easy for the police to investigate this, I will be very surprised if anything came of this story.
