Gail O’Rorke cleared in assisted suicide case

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.

In what is believed to be the first trial of its kind in Ireland, Gail O’Rorke, 43, from Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght, Dublin, was charged over the booking of flights to Switzerland between March 10 and April 20 2011 to travel to the Dignitas clinic.