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On 25 June the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, announced he did not consider it would be in the public interest to bring a case against former GP Michael Irwin, for assisting in 2006 the suicide of pancreatic cancer sufferer Ray Cutkelvin.
See Peter Saunders' blog on the worrying implications for the assisted suicide debate, and note how the DPP's decision contradicts the very recent BMA guidance.
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