Lethal injection
A father of two died after being injected for a routine filling by a Cumbrian dentist, a Coroner’s Court has been told. The injection coiitained a mixture of brietai, to cause unconsciousness, ; and halothane, which, should only be inhaled. The dentist, Neil Forker, said he had to accept that halothane was inadver-’ tently poured into the brietai bottle. Paul Pickering died by misadventure after two weeks in’ hospital, the Coroner's jury decided.—London.
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Press, 27 May 1981, Page 9
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