A BBC presenter was spared jail today after admitting he made up claims that he killed a former lover who was dying of Aids.
Ray Gosling, 71, was given a 90-day suspended prison sentence at Nottingham Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to wasting police time.
The veteran broadcaster and gay rights campaigner recorded a programme shown in February in which he claimed to have smothered a friend as he lay dying in hospital.
However detectives carried out a six-month investigation and are understood to have found no evidence to support the allegations made during the Inside Out programme broadcast in February.
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