Wife, 65, arrested over plan to take husband to Dignitas clinic for assisted suicide It is believed the woman, 65, along with her 25 year-old son from Chichester, West Sussex, wanted to travel to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich so the ill man, 71, could end his life. Under guidelines published by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2010, a person accompanying someone to a foreign country to commit assisted suicide is unlikely to face proesecution. However, the guidance set out that a prosecution was "more likely to be required" in a number of scenarios including when "the victim did not have the capacity ... to reach an informed decision to commit suicide." Police must investigate whether a person was able to give their consent under the terms of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which sets out how a person with A spokeswoman for Dignity in Dying said: "Sad cases like these highlight why a robust assisted dying law with upfront safeguards would far better protect everyone than the current situation does. A new assisted dying law proposed by Lord Falconer, which will be debated in Parliament in the near future, would permit terminally ill mentally competent adults the choice of an assisted death, but with upfront safeguards and as a last resort. She added: "This law would prevent people from having to take decisions behind closed doors, would prevent families from risking their liberty by breaking the law to support a loved ones wish to die, and would better protect those who do want to choose an assisted death, and those who don't by imposing safeguards upfront rather than the current state of retrospective investigation and potential prosecution, when it is too late." The wife and son have been released on bail while the police carry on their enquiries.