Doctor spared by Keir Starmer from assisted dying charges ‘is sure PM wants law change’
by Emily Dugan from World news | The Guardian on (#6RKW3)
Exclusive: Starmer, then DPP, said it was not in public interest to prosecute Dr Michael Irwin after arrest in 2009
A doctor who was spared from criminal charges over assisted dying by Keir Starmer when he was director of public prosecutions has said he is sure the prime minister wants a change to the ridiculous" laws on the issue.
Dr Michael Irwin was arrested in 2009 after reports that he had travelled to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland with a terminally ill man and given him 1,500 towards the cost of ending his life.
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