A ‘brilliant’ veterinarian murdered himself with a euthanasia pill after becoming increasingly upset by ‘wealthy’ clients requesting that he put their animals down needlessly, according to an inquiry.
According to a coroner, Dr. John Ellis was angry that ‘brand new’ automobiles parked outside his office wouldn’t pay to rescue their animals.
The 35-year-old, on the other hand, informed his mother that patients who were unable to pay for treatment sometimes arrived with their dogs too late for any action to be taken.
This was ‘terrible’ for her son, Tina Ellis, a Conservative councillor from Fareham, Hampshire, told an inquest investigating his death.
“Stressed” By pretending he required the lethal drug to put down a friend’s “large dog,” Dr. Ellis, who the court was informed was also living.
A “double life” by surreptitiously cheating on his long-term girlfriend, deceived a veterinary nurse into giving him the prescription.
