A pharmacist from Farnham has admitted assisting in the suicide of his elderly father at their Dockenfield home by injecting him with a lethal dose of morphine.
Bipin Desai, 58, pleaded guilty to a charge of encouraging or assisting in a suicide during a hearing at Guildford Crown Court last Thursday (December 8). He also admitted a charge of theft of morphine between May 1 and 31 May 2015 and a charge of theft of insulin between August 1 and August 28 2015.
Mr Desai was arrested two days after his 85-year-old father, Dhirajlal Desai, was found dead at their home on August 27 last year.
Paul Bogan QC, defending, put forward an application to dismiss a charge of murdering his father. A hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London will take place during the last two weeks of March next year.
Judge Robert Fraser set a trial date of 7th June next year at Guildford Crown Court and continued Desai’s bail to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice next March.
