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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sam Ormiston

Woman traumatised by mum's final months to travel to New Zealand for assisted death

A charity worker is considering travelling across the world to benefit from New Zealand's assisted dying laws - because she doesn't want to die the same way her mum did.

Avril Barker, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, was left heartbroken as she watched her mum Anne 'waste away' before she died of cancer aged 79.

The 51-year-old, who could die before Christmas, has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive tumour.

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