Brisbane woman charged with murder after allegedly giving terminally ill partner lethal dose of pain medication

Police say David Mobbs was in last stages of his life' with motor neurone disease and had been in and out of hospital before his death

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A pensioner has been charged with murder after being accused of administering a lethal dose of prescription medication to her terminally ill partner.

Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 50, was arrested more than a year after the death of David Ronald Mobbs, 56, at Alexandra Hills, in Brisbane's south-east, in December 2023.