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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

Widow who took husband to Dignitas tells peers law must change

Louise Shackleton accompanied her husband Antony to Dignitas last year (LouiseShackleton/PA) -

A widow investigated for almost a year after accompanying her husband to Dignitas has urged lawmakers to recognise that assisted dying cannot be just for “the elite”.

Louise Shackleton, who was told this month she will not face charges over her husband’s assisted death in Switzerland last December, made her plea to House of Lords peers as they prepared to carry out further scrutiny of a Bill which would give some people a right to die in England and Wales.

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