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Ethan James

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Son gave lethal drug dose to elderly mum coroner rules - Caught on Camera

A GP injected his elderly mother with a cocktail of drugs intending for her to die, a coroner found. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A former doctor injected his 88-year-old mother with a cocktail of drugs intending to end her life and lied during subsequent investigations, a coroner has ruled. 

Nelda Edwards died at her Hobart home in March 2016, two days after her husband of almost seven decades, 90-year-old David Edwards. 

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