Killer carer says acted out of mercy

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 24 - A 48-year-old Naples man who confessed to murdering four elderly cancer patients said he did so out of "mercy and compassion".
    Mario Eutizia, who told cops this week he had killed four patients in their late 80s and mid 90s by upping their dose of painkillers to lethal levels, said he had wanted to "bring them to a sweet death".
    The alleged mercy killings took place in Latina south of Rome (two cases), at Casoria near Naples, and in the Campanian area of Cilento in recent years, Eutizia told Carabinieri in Caserta Thursday.
    He said his aim was to bring them "gently" towards death, "driven by a deep compassion and pity for them", as they were very old and seriously ill. (ANSA).