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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood

‘I was denied being with her in her last moments’: campaigners on assisted dying bill

Peter Wilson sits on his sofa in his home, with a portrait of his deceased wife on the table in front of him
Peter Wilson says his wife took her life while he was away to avoid implicating him in her death. Photograph: Fabio de Paola/The Guardian

Two months after Beverly Sand was told that her oesophageal cancer was terminal, she took her life, alone when her husband was away for a couple of days. In a note she left him, she asked for forgiveness and told him: “You are the love of my life.”

Even though Peter Wilson could prove he was 120 miles away at the time of her death, he was questioned by police for seven hours, fingerprinted, photographed and swabbed for gunshot residue. No gun had been involved in Sand’s death.

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