An NHS surgeon laughed as he was challenged over his past comments about 'sacrificing grannies' during a Parliamentary committee on assisted dying.
Consultant neurosurgeon Dr Henry Marsh chuckled as he said he 'didn't realise' the vile comments would end up in the public domain.
The pro-assisted dying doctor had previously said: 'Even if a few grannies get bullied into it, isn't that a price worth paying for all the people who could die with dignity?'
Dr Marsh also claimed the opposition to assisted dying is 'all bloody Christians' and added that during a Commons debate on the topic 'one bloody woman MP' had told a 'complete lie'.
He had been invited to take part in a Human Rights Committee session discussing the potential impact of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on the human rights of disabled people.
During the session on Wednesday, Tory Peer Lord Simon Murray asked him: 'I think you're on record saying… if there's some cases of coercion the greater public good is satisfied by having the system, is that fair?'
Dr Marsh, 75, responded: 'In principle, yes. I know I made a very crass comment about "sacrificing grannies", I greatly regret it and I wish I hadn't said it."
But he wasn't sorry he'd said, rather than about the fact his inhumanity became widely known, as his next comment made clear:
'It was very stupid of me and I didn't realise it was going to get into the public domain.'