Statement by Susan Glyn, F.R.S.A., Barrister at Law, Chairman of ALERT

19 September 2009

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Keir Starmer, stated in the Daily Telegraph (August 4th 2009) that he would publish an "interim policy" on Assisted Suicide this month.

Is the DPP proposing to apply his three criteria:

1. After an assisted suicide? In that case they have no legal validity because the true facts could not be ascertained. Dead men tell no tales.
   
   

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2. Is the DPP proposing to issue advance licenses to kill? If so, by what right? And who is to ascertain the facts and motives, since the DPP will not allow the Courts to do so?

Refusal to prosecute is a deliberate means of bypassing Parliament in order to change the law without their permission, to suit the whim of the Government of the moment. It can be used to nullify any law.