PETER Tulloch claims doctors at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital attempted to “kill off” his elderly mother by withdrawing a feeding tube.
He told how he paid Jean, 83, pictured, a surprise visit at the hospital in March, where she had been admitted with a urinary tract infection, to find that her intravenous drip had been removed. The engineer says it was only then that he was told that she had been placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway.
After raising his concerns, he said his mother had the drip reinserted and survived for a further two weeks.
But Mr Tulloch believes that medical staff had attempted to speed up his mother’s death and should be charged with attempted murder.