Judge asks jury to use 'common sense' as they deliberate in 'assisted suicide' case

The jury in the trial of a taxi driver in connection with the alleged assisted suicide of an MS sufferer have begun their deliberations.

In the first prosecution of its kind in Ireland, Gail O’Rorke, 43, from Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght, Dublin, is charged with attempting to aid and abet a friend’s death by arranging travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland between March 10 and April 20 2011.