Woman admits on radio show: I helped my dad die

GARDAI are carrying out inquiries to decide whether to launch an investigation after a radio show caller admitted taking part in the assisted suicide of her father. The woman, indentified only as 'Jane', described it as the "final act of love" when she injected her father with an overdose of an anaesthetic drug as he lay in a hospital ward 10 years ago. Assisting a suicide is illegal under a 1993 law and anyone found guilty could face 14 years' imprisonment. Charges have only been contemplated in one other case -- that of Dublin woman Rosemary Toole Gilhooley, who was assisted in taking her own life by American, the Rev George Exoo. However, Irish authorities were unable to secure the extradition of Mr Exoo from his home in west Virginia. Gardai are now carrying out initial inquiries in the call to determine whether charges... [read full story]