RIGHT-TO-DIE ACTIVIST: ‘I’m no murderer’ – after home arrest, Sean Davison vows to fight in Desmond Tutu’s honour to change assisted suicide law

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Speaking publicly for the first time after ending three years of house arrest after being convicted for helping three people to die DignitySA founder Professor Sean Davison said it was time the law changed to recognise compassion – where euthanasia is ...

‘I have done my time. But I did not commit a crime,” said Professor Sean Davison, founder and director ofSpeaking on the steps of the Cape Town High Court on Monday, Davison was marking the end of his three-year house arrest sentence, after being convicted in 2019 on three counts of premeditated murder.

In November 2018, Davison faced a second murder charge, over the death of Justin Varian, who was terminally ill with motor neurone disease. Davison wasProfessor Sean Davison with Professor Willem Landman of DignitySA, Dieter Harck, who is terminally ill, and his wife Lynn at the Cape Town High Court on 20 June 2022. Davison has completed three years of house arrest after he was convicted on three counts of premeditated murder for helping three people to end their lives.

“I helped three men to die – three men suffering unbearably with no hope of recovery. Three men desperate to die, and three men incapable of ending their own lives. For that the court found me a murderer. I am not a murderer, I am not a criminal,” he said.

 

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