title: Police quiz journalist who says she killed aunt.
abstract: A local newspaper columnist made headlines last month when she told readers how she had killed a relative 30 years ago by administering an overdose of morphine. The Daily Mail said that as confessions go, 'it was of the more high-profile variety'. Maureen Messent used her column in the Birmingham Mail to describe how her great aunt succumbed to lung cancer in her eighties. 'Our doctor, a family friend, left us a bottle of morphine. "Give her this as she needs it," he said.' That night, Ms Messent 'said goodbye and gave her the whole bottle'.