Mum arrested after helping stranger travel to carry out assisted suicide at Dignitas
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman risked a 14-year prison sentence by helping a stranger travel thousands of miles to carry out a medically assisted death.
Sue Lawford had only met Sharon Johnston once when she agreed to chaperon her to Dignitas, a non-profit organisation in Switzerland that provides assisted-suicide to those with terminal or severe illness.
Sharon had been left paralysed following a freak accident at home. She had gone upstairs to put her pyjamas on for the evening, but on her way back down she tripped and fell down the flight of stairs, Wales Online reports.
The incident caused her to fracture several bones in the top of her neck, leaving her with virtually no movement in her body, apart from some in one hand which allows her to operate her specially adapted wheelchair.Sharon was also left doubly incontinent and relied on carers who would visit her home four times a day.
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