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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Woman who went with Briton to Dignitas sues police over her arrest

Miranda Tuckett
Miranda Tuckett is bringing a claim for damages for false imprisonment, breach of her academic freedoms and assault and battery. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

An anthropologist who travelled with a British woman who took her life at Dignitas is suing the police after she was arrested upon her return on suspicion of encouraging suicide.

Miranda Tuckett, who is researching a doctoral thesis on Britons going to Switzerland to take their own lives, is bringing a high court claim for damages against Dyfed-Powys police for false imprisonment, breach of her academic freedoms and assault and battery.

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