A taxi driver has been found not guilty of attempting to assist the suicide of a wheelchair bound friend suffering the final stages of multiple sclerosis.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of helping her friend take her own life has been ordered to find her not guilty on two of the three charges against her.

The jury at the trial of a 43-year-old woman charged with assisting the suicide of another, has been played the last recorded words of the deceased.

A Dublin taxi driver has gone on trial in connection with the assisted suicide of an MS sufferer – the first prosecution of its kind in the country.