Police released a veteran TV reporter on bail Feb. 18 after he was arrested and questioned about claims he made on the air that he killed his lover who was dying of AIDS.

Ray Gosling revealed Feb. 15 in a BBC TV documentary that he used a pillow to smother his dying lover in his hospital bed to end his suffering.

The 70-year-old journalist was released on bail from a police station in Nottingham, central England, after being questioned on suspicion of murder for 36 hours.

Gosling said during the TV show that he and the unidentified man had made a pact on what to do should the pain of the AIDS victim become intolerable, and nothing more could be done. Gosling said he believed he had made the right decision and had no regrets.

Under British law, assisting a suicide is punishable by up to 14 years in prison, but courts have become reluctant to convict people who help seriously disabled or terminally ill loved ones to end their lives.