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If you Google âÇÖDr Stephen EdwardsâÇÖ you will find news stories of himá allegedly murdering his elderly mother, being sent to jail for three monthsá and then on bail for four years until the case was dropped. Edwards, aá former general practitioner who specialised in nursing home patients andá palliative care, was deregistered after the charge of euthanising his motherá was brought against him. The case was closed after he was diagnosed withá terminal cancer and given six to thirteen months to live in January 2020.á He left Tasmania to live in inner Sydney. The story of how Edwards wasá charged with conspiring with his brother to murder his mother confrontsáthe most fundamental questions of life and death, magnified by his owná diagnosis of terminal cancer which he stubbornly refuses to accept. Hisá incarceration in TasmaniaâÇÖs most notorious high-security jail broughtá him into direct contact with mass murderer Martin Bryant as well asá the inequities and perverse injustices of the prison system. Dubbed âÇÖDrá DeathâÇÖ by his fellow inmates, he nevertheless earned their respect. He wasá only the second person in Australia to be granted bail for murder, andá his treatment highlights the lottery that is the justice system. Perversely,á the dropping of the charges against him makes it impossible to clear hisá name. His narrative of the events that led to his murder charge and hisá fight for justice makes for compelling reading.