Starmer guidelines on assisted suicide February 2010

Keir Starmer (Director of Public Prosecutions) published the policy after taking account of 5,000 responses received as part of the most extensive survey of public opinion on assisted suicide since the Suicide Act 1961 was introduced, which created an offence to help with a suicide liable to up to 14 years in prison. The consultation was launched in September 2009 after Debbie Purdy sought guidelines on whether her husband would be prosecuted for assisting her suicide.