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MSP says her mother starved herself to death after terminal cancer diagnosis

MSP says her mother starved herself to death after terminal cancer diagnosis

Elena Whitham told MSPs her mother, Irene McLeod, made the decision in ‘secret’ in a bid to ‘hasten her inevitable death’.

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