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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alice Peacock

Ex-NHS worker's 6-month arrest ordeal after helping woman to end her own life

A former NHS manager is reeling following her six-month ordeal after she was arrested and interrogated by police for helping a paralysed woman access an assisted dying facility.

Sue Lawford 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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