Family assisted suicide in Britain no longer a crime...

Families who help terminally ill loved ones to commit suicide will not be prosecuted under landmark guidance to be issued this week, it has been reported.

The new guidelines on assisted suicide are expected to say that people will only be prosecuted if police can prove they stood to gain from the death.

The documents are being drawn up by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, after Law Lords backed multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy's call for a policy statement on whether people who helped someone kill themselves should be prosecuted. More...

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