The European Court of Human Rights has censured Belgium for failing to conduct a proper investigation into circumstances of the 2012 euthanasia death of Godelieva de Troyer.
The Court held that there was a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights that everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law.
Godelieva de Troyer died by lethal injection in 2012, aged 64, following a diagnosis of ‘incurable depression’, but her son – Tom Mortier – later raised concerns.
The doctor who carried out the euthanasia was a cancer specialist, not a mental health specialist.
