Daughters face police questions after terminally ill mother ends her life at Dignitas clinic in Switzerland...

Two daughters who organised fundraising events in a bid to raise money for their terminally-ill mother to travel to Dignitas now face police questioning after she ended her life at the suicide clinic.

Sisters Tara O'Reilly and Rose Baker raised more than £8,000 for their 59-year-old mother Jackie, after she was left 'trapped in her own body' after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

The sisters, from Llaneli, West Wales, travelled with their mother to the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland by train last week and were at her bedside when she took her own life.

They now face being questioned by police after raising money to support their mother's journey and making the trip with her.

However, the sisters claim they are 'really happy' at helping to make the grandmother's wish come true and are now campaigning for assisted suicide to be made legal in the UK.

Hairdresser Ms O'Reilly, 40, said: 'It's true, Mum has died. She got her wish.

'We understand the police will probably question us - but we would do it again. Full story...

Related posts:

1. Dignitas death sparks renewed controversy over assisted suicide law...
2. Exit records dramatic rise in assisted suicides in Switzerland...
3. Elderly couple to die together by assisted suicide even though they are not ill...
4. Stephen Hawking speaks out about assisted suicide...
5. Nearly quarter of suicide cases at Switzerland's Dignitas are Britons...
6. Foreign assisted suicide cases in Switzerland double in 4 years...
7. What the fear of death does to your beliefs...