{"id":141756,"date":"2018-06-15T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/familys-relief-not-to-face-prison-over-dads-dignitas-death\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:35:52","slug":"familys-relief-not-to-face-prison-over-dads-dignitas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/familys-relief-not-to-face-prison-over-dads-dignitas-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Family&#8217;s &#8216;relief&#8217; not to face prison over dad&#8217;s Dignitas death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Lenton and a black dog on a hill\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1282\/production\/_101783740_johnlenton2.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Family Photo<figcaption>Image caption                                      Sandra Holmes said her father expressed his desire to travel to Switzerland several months before his death                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A daughter who took her 93-year-old father to die at a Dignitas facility in Switzerland said she is &quot;relieved&quot; she will not face going to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Holmes, 66, from Llanrwst, Conwy, her son Scott, and her partner, took John Lenton to die last October.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has now said no-one will be charged as it is &quot;not in the public interest&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Holmes, who said she was prepared to go to prison to help her father die, said: &quot;We&#039;re very relieved&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal, with those against changing the law saying they expose vulnerable people to pressure to end their lives and give too much power to doctors. <\/p>\n<p>North Wales Police referred the World War Two veteran&#039;s death to the CPS, but on Thursday it said it was not pursuing any charges against the family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisted dying debate: The key questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p068jklc.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionSandra and Scott Holmes want the law on assisted suicide changed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Holmes said her father asked her in the spring to accompany him to die abroad, and she did not regret her actions.<\/p>\n<p>She said she did not coerce Mr Lenton in any way, who had Parkinson&#039;s, and several times gave him options to change his mind, even booking a return ticket for him from Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing no charges would be perused, Ms Holmes said: &quot;All three of us are delighted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a family we&#039;re very relieved that the decision&#039;s been made. It&#039;s what we expected but it&#039;s nice to draw a line under it.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Police assess &#039;assisted dying&#039; death<\/li>\n<li>Cancer patient dies at Dignitas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She said she would continue to fight for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide in cases like her father&#039;s.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have lost count of the number of people - many of them strangers - who have told me they&#039;ve just discovered that their parents have similar wishes to those of my father,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is something people need to be able to talk about.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisted dying: What does the law in different countries say?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A CPS spokesman said: &quot;We considered the circumstances of the case in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and taking account of the relevant CPS legal guidance. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We concluded a prosecution is not in the public interest and therefore no charges have been authorised.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Family PhotoImage caption Sandra Holmes said her father expressed his desire to travel to Switzerland several months before his death A daughter who took her 93-year-old father to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}