Philip Morris, 76, with "very great reluctance" assisted his wife, Myra Morris, then 73, when she went to the Pegasos clinic in Liestal, Switzerland, in December 2023 and self-administered a fatal dose of pentobarbital.
The Forfeiture Act 1982 precludes a person who has unlawfully killed another from acquiring a benefit in consequence of the killing. However, after a challenge by Morris, Mr Justice Trower ruled in the high court that the forfeiture rule should not apply in the case at hand.
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