An octogenarian accused of involvement in a whale euthanasia charity acting as a front for a life-ending business has shuffled into court aided by crutches to face a magistrate.

Ian George Taylor, of Ashmore, on Friday faced Southport Magistrates Court on Queensland's Gold Coast charged with once count each of possessing and trafficking drugs.

Police allege Taylor, aged 80, trafficked animal euthanasia drugs on April 5, less than a week before his son, Brett Daniel Taylor, 53, allegedly helped a quadriplegic man to take his own life.

Ian Taylor sought to view police evidence alleging he trafficked whale euthanasia drugs alongside his son.

The Taylors and Southport woman Elaine Arch-Rowe, 81, were charged on September 15 following an investigation into the death of 43-year-old David Lle

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