Thomas Lodwig

Thomas Lodwig was an English doctor, accused of murdering a patient with terminal cancer in 1990.

A 48-year-old patient with terminal pancreatic cancer, Roy Spratley,[3] had been receiving regular and increasing doses of heroin for pain relief.

He then drew a finger across his throat and pointed upwards, an act his counsel later claimed was a joke.

In court, though, the prosecution stated that its main medical witness was no longer convinced that the patient had died solely from a potassium overdose.

[2] Other British doctors suspected, implicated or convicted of killing or hastening the deaths of patients include