Louise Shackleton says current law is traumatising families and she wanted jury to assess her innocence
A woman who was under police investigation for accompanying her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland said she wished her case had gone to trial so she could have proved her innocence in front of a jury.
Louise Shackleton, 59, spent 10 months under investigation for assisting a suicide before North Yorkshire police announced this week that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute her.
She handed herself in to police on legal advice after she returned to the UK from a Dignitas clinic in Zurich where her husband, Anthony, died last December.
She said that while she was relieved her adult children would no longer have to worry about her, she wished she’d had a chance to make her case in open court.
