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Jean Bradley, 65, breaks her silence about the doctor who put her husband to death against his will.  Even though she was estranged from her husband, Mrs. Bradley had spent the last weeks of his life caring for him. She told the Telegraph "I do not think my husband wanted to die without seeing his children. He did not deserve to die like that."

Ms Bradley said she spent weeks caring for her estranged husband, Leonard, as he lay dying from cancer.

In her husband’s final hours he seemed to be trying to tell his children that he loved them but was unable to speak.  Mrs. Bradley claimed that when Dr Martin turned up at their house, he “jabbed a needle” into her husband’s leg. She said her husband then tried to grab the doctor’s neck before swearing at him.

Mrs Bradley said she was already angry at Dr Martin because he had failed to turn up for a midnight appointment a few hours earlier. She said, “Dr Martin came back at lunchtime. I would not speak to him or look at him as I was so angry about what had happened. I heard him trying to explain to the children why he had not come back when he said he would.

“I then went upstairs with Dr Martin and I think [my daughter] Vicky was present. I recall clearly that Dr Martin jabbed a needle in my husband’s leg very forcefully. My husband shot up in bed and went for Dr Martin and said: 'You ------- -------.’”

“Those were my husband’s last words.”

Mrs Bradley said Dr Martin behaved strangely on his first visit the day before. “He sat at the kitchen table for at least half an hour and talked about various things including his son [who had died of cancer],” she said. When the GP went upstairs he pinched Mr Bradley and asked if he had a commode.

“We then came downstairs and Dr Martin discussed giving my husband an injection. He said it would make him go to sleep. He did not discuss this with my husband at all. “I asked Dr Martin what he meant. Dr Martin said he would not wake up again and I should telephone all of the family and get them round. “He said not to tell anyone else as this would make more paperwork for him.”

The doctor gave Mr Bradley an injection and left the syringe on a window sill. He failed to turn up at midnight. At 5am the following day Mr Bradley appeared to suffer a massive reaction.

Mrs. Bradley stated, “I do not think my husband wanted to die without seeing his children. He did not deserve to die like that.