Woman who went with Briton to Dignitas sues police over her arrest

Miranda Tuckett, an anthropologist, held in cell for 11 hours after returning from clinic where Sharon Johnston died

An anthropologist who travelled with a British woman who took her life at Dignitas is suing the police after she was arrested on her return for encouraging suicide.

Miranda Tuckett, who is researching a doctoral thesis on Britons going to Switzerland to take their own lives, is bringing a high court claim for damages against Dyfed-Powys police for false imprisonment, breach of her academic freedoms and assault and battery.

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