Woman investigated over husband’s use of assisted dying clinic wanted to argue case in court

Louise Shackleton said she was criminalised by the UK’s laws around assisted dying. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

A woman who was under police investigation for accompanying her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland said she wished her case had gone to trial so she could have proved her innocence in front of a jury.

Louise Shackleton, 59, spent 10 months under investigation for assisting a suicide before North Yorkshire police announced this week that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute her.