BBC News - Police doctor suspended over manslaughter conviction: "doctor working for a Welsh police force has been suspended after it emerged he had been prosecuted in Spain over the death of an elderly patient.
Dr Marcos Hourmann, an Argentinian, was convicted of manslaughter in 2009 after he said an 82-year-old seriously ill woman had asked him to end her life.
While awaiting trial, he worked at hospitals in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, and in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
The General Medical Council (GMC) and Dyfed-Powys Police have suspended him.
Dr Hourmann, who lives near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, was originally charged with murder after the woman's death in 2005, but this was changed to manslaughter in a plea bargain deal, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
He was given a year's suspended prison sentence in Tarragona, Catalonia, and did not serve any time in jail."
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