GP gave lethal drug dose to his elderly mum, coroner finds
Nelda Edwards died two days after her husband.
A former GP injected his 88-year-old mother with a cocktail of drugs intending to end her life and lied during subsequent investigations, a coroner has ruled.
Nelda Edwards died at her Hobart home in March 2016, two days after her husband of almost seven decades, David Edwards.
One of the couple’s four sons, Dr Stephen Edwards, was charged with murdering her about one month later.
The charge was dropped in 2020 because Dr Edwards was ill, with Tasmania’s Director of Public Prosecutions concluding there was no public interest in matters continuing.
