By Rex Martinich

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Arch-Rowe – a long-time supporter of Philip Nitschke’s pro-euthanasia group – was released from the Southport watch house on Tuesday after being granted bail, despite opposition from the prosecution.

Police prosecutor Casey-Lee Beck told Southport Magistrates Court there were recorded conversations between Arch-Rowe and an undercover operative about allegedly supplying animal euthanasia drugs to kill people.

A coroner ordered a police investigation after a post-mortem examination of the Gold Coast man, who died in April, revealed a lethal dose of the life-ending animal drug pentobarbitone as his cause of death.

The drug is tightly controlled in Queensland and police charged the trio after an extensive probe into the man’s health record and medical treatment.