MS sufferer Purdy wins assisted suicide legal bid

MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy yesterday won a legal bid to force the government to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

The House of Lords ruled that the failure to make clear the circumstances in which a person could be prosecuted for accompanying someone abroad to commit suicide infringed her human rights.

Purdy, 46, from Bradford, wanted to force the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to give assurances her husband would not be prosecuted if he helped her go to a euthanasia facility overseas.