BBC journalist Ray Gosling confesses "murder by compassion" on TV show

[Drakken]

BBC Journalist Ray Golsing has confessed, during a TV show, to have murdered his AIDS-ridden lover in hospital after learning that nothing could be done to relieve his pain. He tells he has smothered him with a pillow while the doctor was gone, and that "nothing was said" afterwards between him and said doctor when the latter came back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFehQYOEV0

I have just read that he got arrested by the police today.

Any thoughts? Whether we agree it is murder or not, it takes an insane amount of guts to actually reveal it through a BBC show when he could have just keep it to himself. And you can tell that he still feels bad about it.

[Martinus]

Wow that's really amazing. Don't know what to say.

[DGuller]

How did he come about to confess on TV?

[The Brain]

He needs the money from selling his story.

[The Brain]

Wow that's really amazing. Don't know what to say.

Murdered gay and Mart doesn't think of anything to say?

[MadImmortalMan]

He needs the money from selling his story.

Has to be. Otherwise, he'd keep his mouth shut.

[Drakken]

He needs the money from selling his story.

Has to be. Otherwise, he'd keep his mouth shut.

Or, just perhaps, because he does not want to keep this secret for himself anymore, and he hopes the government will amend the law in the future.

[The Brain]

He needs the money from selling his story.

Has to be. Otherwise, he'd keep his mouth shut.

Or, just perhaps, because he does not want to keep this secret for himself anymore, and he hopes the government will amend the law in the future.

Then it's no longer a secret, is it? So much for that theory.

[MadImmortalMan]

Or, just perhaps, because he does not want to keep this secret for himself anymore, and he hopes the government will amend the law in the future.

He'd have to be a fool to think there was any chance of that, really. Or completely isolated from reality. He is a journo after all.

[Drakken]

Or, just perhaps, because he does not want to keep this secret for himself anymore, and he hopes the government will amend the law in the future.

He'd have to be a fool to think there was any chance of that, really. Or completely isolated from reality. He is a journo after all.

The impact is not the same when some Joe-Blo remote in the country does it, and a BBC journalist publicly admits he has committed it on someone who was within hours of dying anyway and in excrutiating pain. Any jury will recognize that at least he didn't have the mens rea, even though on the letter it is murder.

And anyway, they have only his word for it. The doctor wasn't a witness to the act, and the police will need an autopsy made on a man who actually was within hours of dying from AIDS.

[The Brain]

That's pretty gross. I doubt they will find a doctor to perform it.

[Razgovory]

BBC Journalist Ray Golsing has confessed, during a TV show, to have murdered his AIDS-ridden lover in hospital after learning that nothing could be done to relieve his pain. He tells he has smothered him with a pillow while the doctor was gone, and that "nothing was said" afterwards between him and said doctor when the latter came back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFehQYOEV0

I have just read that he got arrested by the police today.

Any thoughts? Whether we agree it is murder or not, it takes an insane amount of guts to actually reveal it through a BBC show when he could have just keep it to himself. And you can tell that he still feels bad about it.

I suppose it takes a bit of guts to cold bloodily kill anyone.  I doubt I could bring myself to kill anyone.  Not even Pat, and he's a fucking rapist.

[The Brain]

BBC Journalist Ray Golsing has confessed, during a TV show, to have murdered his AIDS-ridden lover in hospital after learning that nothing could be done to relieve his pain. He tells he has smothered him with a pillow while the doctor was gone, and that "nothing was said" afterwards between him and said doctor when the latter came back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFehQYOEV0

I have just read that he got arrested by the police today.

Any thoughts? Whether we agree it is murder or not, it takes an insane amount of guts to actually reveal it through a BBC show when he could have just keep it to himself. And you can tell that he still feels bad about it.

I suppose it takes a bit of guts to cold bloodily kill anyone.  I doubt I could bring myself to kill anyone.  Not even Pat, and he's a fucking rapist.

Is there another kind?

[viper37]

Wow that's really amazing. Don't know what to say.

try to think of what you would say if he wasn't gay.

[Alexandru H.]

Gays killed by gays... I guess it would be more efficient that way, rather than inventing a whole system of camps