A respected chemist facing a murder charge 'helped his father die' by giving him a smoothie laced with painkillers and injecting him with insulin, a court has heard.
Bipin Desai, 59, watched football on TV before pouring a highly-concentrated dose of the painkiller into a drink for his 85-year-old diabetic father whose body was later found at their lavish family home in Surrey.
The chemist lived with his father, Dhirajlal, at their £1,273,000 house on the county's stockbroker belt in Dockenfield, near Farnham.
The jury sitting for the second week of his murder trial at Guilford Crown Court watched his second police interview. They had last week been told he admitted assisting in a suicide and two charges of theft by an employee, relating to the insulin and morphine he stole, but denied murder.
Tapes showed him discussing making the fatal mixture after dinner on August 26 last year, while his wife and two children were away in London. He told detectives: 'I just picked up some food - bananas, apples, nectarines - from in the kitchen. I chopped them up and put them in the blender. And some orange juice and then just whizzed it. That was the smoothie made and then I poured it in to a glass.'
He then described getting a £4.98 20ml bottle of Oramorph - a concentrated morphine solution - which he had kept at the back of his stationary drawer, in a chest of drawers in his study.
Prosecuting, William Boyce QC has claimed he bought the mixture at Vaughan James Pharmacy where he worked in Farnham on February 20 and it was delivered the next day.
The 59-year-old admitted he was 'nervous and anxious' but knew 'the time was right'.
He added: 'My father was still having his meal and I said to him that I had made the mixture and he said "Good".
'I was felling nervous, anxious, but I also felt that we had come to a time when it was the appropriate time to help my father.
'I think over a bit of time he had been telling me to help him do something and it just felt like this was possibly the right time because none of my family were there.
'We didn't want anyone, especially my children, to see him.'
His father had lived in Zambia before moving to stay with family in Zimbabwe and then eventually moving in with his son in the village of Dockenfield in February 2015.
Mr Desai told the officers his father went upstairs to his room after he had finished eating.
His father had lived in Zambia before moving to stay with family in Zimbabwe and then eventually moving in with his son in the village of Dockenfield in February 2015.
Mr Desai told the officers his father went upstairs to his room after he had finished eating.
The trial continues.
