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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Ex-NHS worker arrested for taking patient to assisted death slams 'heavy handed' police

A woman arrested after helping a paralysed woman access an assisted dying facility has blasted 'heavy-handed' officers banging on her door at 5.30am, before locking her up.

Earlier this year, former NHS worker Sue Lawford said that she accompanied Sharon Johnston, a 60-year-old woman who became tetraplegic following a fall, on her trip to the well-known Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, where she had chosen to end her life.

The Swiss non-profit organisation provides physician-assisted suicide to people with severe or terminal illnesses.

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