'We wouldn't treat a dog so badly': Nick Ross's fury over law which forced terminally ill friend abroad to die

The UK would not treat a dog as badly as it treated a woman who was forced to spend her final hours away from home after travelling to Switzerland to die, former BBC Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross said today.


Former TV producer Geraldine McClelland, 61, who was diagnosed with lung and liver cancer, called for a change to the law after travelling to a Dignitas clinic in Zurich where she died yesterday.

In a letter published hours after her death, Ms McClelland said she was not sad, but 'angry that because of the cowardice of our politicians I can't die in the country I was born in, in my own home'.     More