Father in French right-to-die case says removal of son's life support is 'murder'

Vincent Lambert has been at the centre of a bitter case after becoming severely brain-damaged after car accident

The father of Vincent Lambert, a severely brain-damaged patient at the heart of a bitter right-to-die case, has denounced his son’s “murder” after a French hospital began removing him from life support.

“It’s murder in disguise, it’s euthanasia,” 90-year-old Pierre Lambert told journalists at Sebastopol hospital in the north-eastern city of Reims on Sunday, where his son has been in a vegetative state since a car accident in 2008.

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