A LICENCE TO KILL?

The Liverpool Care Pathway was drawn up by doctors in the 1990s to ease the final hours of the terminally ill.

It involved patients being sedated and deprived of food, fluids and lifeprolonging medicine, frequently leading to death within 33 hours.

It was abolished by the Government in 2014, amid evidence of ‘shocking’ abuses, though critics say similar techniques are still being used by doctors.