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| BBC presenter Ray Gosling dies | BBC presenter Ray Gosling dies |
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| Journalist, broadcaster and gay rights activist Ray Gosling has died in hospital in Nottingham. | |
| Gosling, 74, presented more than a 100 television documentaries and many more radio programmes. | |
| In 2010, he was sentenced for wasting police time after he falsely claimed on a BBC show that he had smothered a former lover who was dying of Aids. | |
| In one of his last documentaries he discussed old age, bankruptcy and moving into sheltered accommodation. | In one of his last documentaries he discussed old age, bankruptcy and moving into sheltered accommodation. |
| A spokesman for Nottingham University NHS Trust confirmed Mr Gosling had died at the Queen's Medical Centre on Tuesday. | |
| 'Picked up pillow' | |
| In 2004, he became a regular presenter on Inside Out East Midlands. | |
| During one of the programmes, broadcast on 15 February 2010, he claimed that he had killed his lover. | |
| He said: "I killed someone once. He was a young chap, he'd been my lover and he got Aids. | |
| "I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead." | |
| Gosling was interviewed on BBC Breakfast programme the day after the Inside Out programme and was asked about his claims. He again confessed to the killing. | |
| He was arrested on suspicion of murder, but charged with wasting police time after the confession was determined to be false. | |
| 'Avoid scrum' | |
| Tony Roe, a BBC editor and friend of Gosling, discussed a programme about death which led to Mr Gosling making the false claims. | |
| Mr Roe said: "After his arrest he was bailed to my house to avoid the media scrum. When he told the truth I was at first angry inside, and then sad. | |
| "He was sitting in front of me his career over. For once no straight answer as to why he had done it. But that night did see an explanation of sorts. | |
| "At his friend's funeral he said he was harangued for not ending the suffering sooner. So for the next 30 years he told himself and believed himself that he had. | |
| "He had wanted to do the right thing and to have been seen to do the right thing." | |
| Sheds and gnomes | |
| Gosling was born in Chester in 1939, and was educated at Northampton Grammar School and the University of Leicester. | |
| He was a youth worker in the St Ann's area of Nottingham and wrote Sum Total, his autobiography, at the age of 23, which detailed his work in the city. | |
| During the 1960s and 1970s Mr Gosling hosted Granada TV's On Site programme, in the North West of England. | |
| He made many TV and radio documentaries about his personal life as well as about sheds, gnomes and windmills. | |
| Mr Roe said: "[He made] Films about people and the places they lived. He wrote like he spoke. Direct. Said what he saw. Said what he thought." |