Would they be arrested? (Dignitas)

[LemonCrab]

If a partner travelled with their terminally ill spouse to an assisted dying clinic abroad.

What is the legal stance with this in the UK at the moment?

Keeps coming up in my family but I worry for the family member who would travel with the ill person.

I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine that it would be illegal simply to travel with a person who was going to Dignitas.

Link to guidelines
www.mydeath-mydecision.org.uk/info/options/assisted-suicide-switzerland/

www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/suicide-policy-prosecutors-respect-cases-encouraging-or-assisting-suicide

It's possible. See here:

www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/suicide-policy-prosecutors-respect-cases-encouraging-or-assisting-suicide

But IANAL and you would get better answers in Legal.

My next doors neighbours wife went a few years ago. He couldn’t go with her, and still the police harassed him, checking texts/ emails bank accounts to check he hadn’t been involved at all with the planning. They only backed down when he went to the press and two police officers were caught on his cctv saying something very cruel about the case,

The law is stupid sometimes. we should be allowed to commit suicide if we want to. We can put animals down. Its legal to mutilate boys genitals. Yet to commit suicide when terminally kill is illegal.
read this if it helps : www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54823490

Travelling back is more likely to be an issue as they aren't going to be providing care for a vulnerable person.

A family friend travelled with his wife years ago, I don’t know all the exact details, but I know he was arrested and questioned, but either no charges were made or they were quickly dropped. I believe it was deemed not in the public interest to prosecute. I believe that she left quite clear legal evidence behind of her intention and request etc in order to support him after she was gone, they’d prepared for the possibility and documented everything, didn’t try to hide anything.

Sorry that your family is facing this. I expect nowadays there must be some specific online support groups on this?