Euthanasia advocate censured after failing to disclose murder convictions

He was convicted of three murders in South Africa in 2019.
He was convicted of three murders in South Africa in 2019. Photo credit: Getty Images

A euthanasia advocate who failed to disclose three overseas murder charges has been censured and had his registration as a laboratory scientist cancelled.

Sean Davison applied to the Medical Sciences Council for the registration in 2017.

As part of the application, he admitted to a conviction relating to the suicide of his terminally ill mother - a case which made headlines when he was convicted in the High Court at Dunedin in 2011.

He did not admit involvement in three South African deaths, involving a person diagnosed with motor neurone disease, one with a brain injury and a quadriplegic.

Davison was convicted of all three murders in South Africa in 2019.

RNZ