The widow of locked-in syndrome victim Tony Nicklinson is to pursue the appeal that her late husband would have brought if he was still alive, it emerged today.

Nicklinson failed to convince the High Court in mid-August that friends and doctors should be allowed to help him die without risking prosecution. He died on 22 August after refusing food and fluids. His widow Jane, as his former wife and carer, is now to lodge an application for permission to appeal the High Court decision. The British Humanist Association has also applied to intervene in the case.

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