BBC Presenter Admits To Murder

February 16, 2010 at 8:00 am

So, we wake this morning to news that BBC presenter Ray Gosling has admitted to smothering his gay lover to death with a pillow.

With no sign of any regret or remorse, indeed “None whatsoever”, he said on the BBC East Midlands’ Inside Out show: “I killed someone once… He’d been my lover and he got Aids.”

It was done, he said, after doctors told him that there was ‘nothing further that could be done for him’. He goes on implicate the doctors in the murder as they knew that he had killed the man, but ‘nothing more was said’.

Anyone who has followed the BBC’s bias in favour of what they delicately refer to as “assisted suicide” will know that it always gets a positive hearing in their news broadcasts…..we all remember the editorialising dressed up as news coverage of Debbie Purdy’s High Court battle on the issue, for example. However, the fact is that aiding or abetting another’s death remains, whether the BBC like it or not, illegal under the 1961 Suicide Act in England and Wales, and is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.

So will the Police investigate? It’s inconceivable that, in a law-abiding society, after such a public confession there could be any other outcome except charges being brought. Does it need someone to make a formal complaint to the Poliice for them to investigate and take action? If no-one else does it then TheEye will, and we can let justice take its course.

This ticks all of the BBC’s “right on” boxes, though, so for any sort of balanced coverage of the affair we’ll have to follow it elsewhere.