Article: HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: DOCTOR SENTENCED FOR CULPABLE HOMICIDE

Lewis Machipisa
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-12-1999
HARARE, Mar. 11 (IPS) -- British-born anesthetist Dr. Richard
McGowan, who was found guilty two-years ago of culpable homicide
due to experiments on his patients, was today sentenced to six
months in prison.
The sentence came after McGowan lost his appeal against the
conviction.
McGowan was convicted in January 1995 on two out of five counts
of culpable homicide after the court ruled he had negligently
administered "dangerous doses of morphine."
McGowan had pleaded not guilty to all counts.
He was slapped with a 12-month jail term of which six were
suspended and fined $1,250 for the deaths of two children --
Kenyan-born ...

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