Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed “Dr. Death” after claiming he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison in the US after eight years today still believing people have the right to die.

A doctor who waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves, is preparing to leave prison next week.

A WOMAN’S life support machine was turned off in an Australian hospital because the director of surgery wanted her bed to operate on another patient, an inquiry heard yesterday.

NURSES hid critically ill patients from an overzealous surgeon dubbed “Dr Death”, claiming he would stalk the intensive care unit searching for people to operate on, an inquiry in the Australian city of Brisbane was told yesterday.

Nurses hid critically-ill patients from an over-zealous surgeon dubbed “Dr Death”, claiming he would stalk the intensive care unit searching for people to operate on, an inquiry in Brisbane was told today.

THE family of one of three women whose lives could have been saved if police had investigated serial killer Harold Shipman properly yesterday labelled the force as “appallingly incompetent.”

The leader of apartheid South Africa’s germ warfare programme, dubbed Dr Death, today said he had no regrets and criticised police, called his prosecutors ‘‘irrational’’ and said his trial had been a huge waste of money.

The head of apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare program said today he had been given unlimited power to further his programme.