Britain's chief prosecutor encouraging breach of suicide law, say Catholic bishops

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"Roman Catholic bishops yesterday accused Britain's chief prosecutor of encouraging people to break the country's suicide laws. They said Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, was creating categories of people whose lives would be legally considered less worthy of protection than the rest of society.

They said his 'interim policy for prosecutors' in cases of assisted suicide stigmatised the disabled, the terminally-ill, the depressed and the aged and said it could send out the message that it was acceptable to help such people to kill themselves."

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Caldwell, Simon. "DPP Keir Starmer encouraging breach of suicide law, say Catholic bishops". MailOnline. Last updated at 12:20 AM on 21st November 2009. <www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229738/DPP-encouraging-breach-suicide-law-Catholic-bishops.html>. Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT.

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  • assisted suicide

  • prosecution

  • Keir Starmer

  • Britain

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