Marie Fleming’s partner ‘shocked’ O’Rorke put on trial

Right- to-die campaigner Tom Curran has said the trial of Gail O’Rorke for assisting the suicide of her friend should never have taken place.

Mr Curran was one of a large number of people present throughout the eight-day trial which found Ms O’Rorke not guilty of trying to help MS sufferer Bernadette Forde end her life by travelling to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.

Mr Curran’s partner Marie Fleming, also an MS sufferer, took a case to the Supreme Court in 2013, challenging the ban on assisted suicide. The Supreme Court found against her but said that the DPP may use “discretion” in prosecuting such cases. Ms Fleming passed away in December 2013.