Police visit widow's home to tell her she won't be charged with a crime after husband, 46, dies

A widow was spoken to by the police after she accompanied her husband to die at an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.

Dan Tuckley was just 46 when he went to the hospital with a muscle strain after a heavy weights session at the gym - but tests later revealed that he had kidney cancer.

It grew five times as much in just a month. Doctors told him that his diagnosis was terminal and there was nothing they could do for him.

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Just four days later he booked a spot at an assisted dying clinic near Basel, Switzerland - a trip which cost him £20,000. His family said that Dan wanted to kill the cancer before it had the chance to kill him, SWNS reports.

And after a family meal where he ordered food and wine, he was no longer well enough to drink, he was given a syringe filled with drugs. He died listening to My Way by Frank Sinatra, surrounded by his wife, Sarah, 46, and siblings Kate, 29, Phillip, 48 and Matthew, 36.

But in December 2022, Sarah says she was visited by the police who told her that they would not be pursuing what they called an 'assisted suicide investigation'. They told her they had investigated but there would be no charges.

Sarah, a business analyst, from Derby, Derbyshire, said: "I opened the door and they said it was Derbyshire police, I knew there was a risk but when they said police it didn't even register in my head.

"They said they would not be pursuing an investigation and kept calling it assisted suicide. I kept telling them that it was not assisted suicide and it was assisted dying. Dan fought for his country and we were made to feel like criminals for bringing something forward that was