Judges in Belgium have fined a Catholic nursing home for refusing to perform euthanasia on a lung cancer patient on its premises.
The St Augustine rest home in Diest was ordered to pay €6,000 after it stopped doctors from giving a lethal injection to Mariette Buntjens.
Days later, the 74-year-old woman was instead taken by ambulance to her private address to die “in peaceful surroundings”.
Mrs Buntjens’ family later sued the nursing home for causing their mother “unnecessary mental and physical suffering”.
