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SwissToni's Place (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Did you see that story the other day about the lady with multiple sclerosis who was going to court to clarify her right to travel to Switzerland for an assisted suicide? Debbie Purdy was diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 1995; she can no longer walk and is gradually losing the strength in her upper body. Her condition is only going to get worse, and if/when her condition becomes unbearable,...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Andrea Minichiello Williams, director of Christian Concern For Our Nation comments on the Debbie Purdy case: “The law is there to protect innocent people. Someone who has been assisted to commit suicide will no longer be able to give an account of whether coercion was involved. If people are vulnerable they may feel under [...]
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Barry George, the man cleared of killing BBC newsreader Jill Dando, is to be questioned over the attempted rape of a teenage girl. Police want to speak to him about an attack on a 16-year-old girl.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Furious campaigners last night called for oddball Barry George to be sectioned over fresh stalking claims.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Your leading article (3 October) on the case of Debbie Purdy makes several statements which are not just erroneous, but which suggest that death may indeed be preferable to life for people with degenerating disabilities.
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
exclusive DANDO CASE BARRY GEORGE STALKS NURSEBARRY George – the misfit cleared of murdering Jill Dando – is beinginvestigated by police for stalking a young nurse.Loner George, 48, freed from jail eight weeks ago, targeted the woman aftermeeting her in a shop.Police have given her an attack alarm and a hotline to officers who willrespond immediately if she sees the serial stalker again.On his release...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A 45-year-old woman says Britain's High Court should clarify the legal definition of assisted suicide in order to allow her to undergo the procedure. The Independent said Friday that Debbie Purdy asked the High Court to clarify the parameters of the existing British law against assisted suicide so she could potentially move forward with her efforts to obtain such a procedure....
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy must wait to learn whether she has won her legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
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Technoccult (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
“A multiple sclerosis sufferer who wants her husband to help her die has accused the Director of Public Prosecutions of ‘ cowardice’ for refusing to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy hit out at Sir Ken Macdonald for failing to make clear under what circumstances someone would be charged for aiding the death [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The dilemma Debbie Purdy faces is about as agonising as can be imagined. She has a terminal illness and is anxious to be in a position to decide when and if to end her own life, should her condition become unbearable. But she is also desperate to protect her husband, a Cuban musician, Omar Puente, from the threat of prosecution if he were to assist her. She wants the option of travelling to the Swiss...
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Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Briefing. From SPUC: SPUC is taking part in an English high court hearing of a case whichpresents a threat to vulnerable people and could undermine the law againstassisted suicide. Mrs Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), wantsto know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he took her abroad to commit suicide. Mrs Mary Corrigan, an SPUC supporter who has MS, said: "MSis a terrible disease,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Simon Hattenstone: The former train robber has long since paid his debt to society. Keeping a sick old man locked up now is petty vindictiveness
