DPP won't give Marie Fleming 'roadmap' on how to evade prosecution

The Director of Public Prosecutions will not give terminally ill woman Marie Fleming a 'roadmap' on how to evade prosecution for the crime of assisted suicide.

DPP won't give Marie Fleming 'roadmap' on how to evade prosecution

The Director of Public Prosecutions will not give terminally ill woman Marie Fleming a 'roadmap' on how to evade prosecution for the crime of assisted suicide.

The DPP's lawyers have told the High Court it is not the director's role to give guidelines on when charges may be brought under section 2.2 of the 1993 Criminal Law Suicide Act.

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