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2018 AGONY Ian and Pauline Williamson yesterday A HUSBAND and wife died just two weeks apart in Gosport War Memorial Hospital as medics “killed people under the guise of easing their pain”, it was claimed yesterday.

Ian Williamson said his mum Ivy and dad Jack did not need painkillers despite serious conditions.

He said Ivy, 79, was put on a diamorphine driver and died in September 2000 before family could say goodbye. Dad Jack, 81, suddenly died 17 days later – even though he was due to go to a nursing home.

Ian, 65, said: “The medical profession are killing those people under the guise of easing their pain. They’re helping them on their way.

“Am I against euthanasia? No. I do believe in it, and I wouldn’t want to live if I couldn’t function.

“I’d sooner be put out of my misery. But it’s got to be your choice. I felt for years they just thought Dad should die. When we came back from Mum’s funeral one of the nursing staff said ‘We’ll make your father comfortable like we did your mum’.

“It’s almost ominous. At the time we thought that was nice. But we were unaware then of what we know now. We went to the cremation for Mum and took Dad back to hospital.

“He seemed all right. Obviously he was upset, but he didn’t deteriorate.”

Ian and wife Pauline, 63, spoke in

“She told them ‘I’m in no pain. I feel a bit of a fraud being here’.

“That was the last thing anyone ever spoke to her about. Suddenly she was put on to the driver, fell into a coma and died not long after.”

Ian’s dad had both legs amputated at another hospital after longstanding venous disease – when valves in veins stop functioning. He was transferred to Gosport so he could be with Ivy – shortly after they had renewed their wedding vows.

But Ivy died within days of former RAF helicopter engineer Jack’s arrival.

Barber Ian, from Netley

Abbey, Southampton, said there was no reason for

Jack to have diamorphine,

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