Overview
- North Yorkshire Police and the CPS concluded a 10‑month inquiry into Louise Shackleton’s role and advised no prosecution after her husband’s assisted death in Switzerland last December.
- Shackleton is pressing the House of Lords to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, arguing current options favor those who can afford to travel abroad.
- A Lords scrutiny committee is taking evidence over six sessions in the next three weeks, with possible witnesses including Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary David Lammy, who opposed the Bill in the Commons.
- The Bill would permit assisted dying for terminally ill adults with a prognosis under six months, subject to approval by two doctors and a panel including a social worker, senior legal figure and psychiatrist.
- If enacted, the Government would have four years to establish services, while assisting suicide remains illegal in England and Wales with a maximum 14‑year sentence.