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16/08/2012
Right-To-Die Case Loses At High Court
Tony Nicklinson has lost his right-to-die case at the High Court.
Paralysed from the neck down Nicklinson took his case to the High Court Hoping to win a ruling for doctors to end his life without fear of prosecution.
The 58-year-old father-of-two from Melksham, Wiltshire, was left paralysed with locked-in syndrome after a catastrophic stroke while on a business trip to Athens. He now communicates by blinking and has described his life as a "living nightmare".
He has said that will appeal against the decision.
The case went further than previous challenges to the law in England and Wales on assisted suicide and murder.
The case differed from other "right-to-die" cases which have focused on assisted suicide. Mr Nicklinson would be unable to take lethal drugs, even if someone else prepared them.
For someone else to kill him would amount to murder.
David Perry QC, who is representing the Ministry of Justice, said Mr Nicklinson's "tragic and very distressing circumstances evoke the deepest sympathy".
"Notwithstanding the distressing facts of his situation, the defendant submits that the claim for declarations is untenable. The law is well established," he added.
(H/GK)
Paralysed from the neck down Nicklinson took his case to the High Court Hoping to win a ruling for doctors to end his life without fear of prosecution.
The 58-year-old father-of-two from Melksham, Wiltshire, was left paralysed with locked-in syndrome after a catastrophic stroke while on a business trip to Athens. He now communicates by blinking and has described his life as a "living nightmare".
He has said that will appeal against the decision.
The case went further than previous challenges to the law in England and Wales on assisted suicide and murder.
The case differed from other "right-to-die" cases which have focused on assisted suicide. Mr Nicklinson would be unable to take lethal drugs, even if someone else prepared them.
For someone else to kill him would amount to murder.
David Perry QC, who is representing the Ministry of Justice, said Mr Nicklinson's "tragic and very distressing circumstances evoke the deepest sympathy".
"Notwithstanding the distressing facts of his situation, the defendant submits that the claim for declarations is untenable. The law is well established," he added.
(H/GK)
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