The 70-year-old presenter apparently confessed to smothering his lover as he lay in hospital dying of Aids during a programme broadcast in February. He was arrested and questioned for 30 hours about the claim. Gosling initially refused to disclose the identity of the man he said he had killed saying he had made a pact with him. He had told a BBC Inside Out documentary that he had smothered the man with a pillow as he lay in a hospital bed in “terrible, terrible pain”. Gosling later admitted that he had disclosed the name of the man whose life he said he hand ended under police questioning.

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