Euthanasia Campaigner Davison Arrested for Murder

South African Sean Davison, a professor and co-founder of DignitySA is accused of assisting in the 2013 suicide of his friend Anrich  Burger, a medical doctor who was left a quadriplegic after a car accident. Davison assisted his terminally-ill mother Patricia Ferguson to end her life in New Zealand in 2010 and stood trial for attempted murder in 2011. Pleas for leniency saw him sentenced to house arrest for 5 months.

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