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DISABILITY rights campaigners said yesterday they would appeal against the High Court rejecting their challenge to “a substantial change” in assisted-dying policy.
Nikki and Merv Kenward, from Shropshire, criticised the three judges’ “bizarre” decision to reject a judicial review into the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) policy on euthanasia.
They accused DDP’s Alison Saunders of changing the policy wording last year to make prosecution of healthcare professions who assist suicide “less likely.”
The Kenwards added that they fear this could make euthanasia become an accepted standard and would put vulnerable people at risk of “dodgy doctors.”
Ms Kenward was struck down with Guillain-Barre syndrome in 1990 at the age of 37.
She now uses a wheelchair and cannot tie her laces or hold a needle.
Rejecting the challenge, judge Sir Brian Leveson said that assisted dying cases in court would always involve “a very detailed consideration of all the facts and, ultimately, a balanced judgment.”
