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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/warning-over-assisted-suicide-law.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Debbie Purdy challenged the law on assisted suicide" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-warning-over-assisted-suicide-law.jpg" alt="Debbie Purdy challenged the law on assisted suicide"/></a></p>
<p>The law on assisted suicide could lead to the worst possible &#8220;botched&#8221; death and must be changed, an inquiry has heard.</p>
<p>Current guidelines, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) last year, are &#8220;particularly bad&#8221;, creating confusion and uncertainty, Baroness Warnock said.</p>
<p>While amateurs are allowed to help someone to die, she argued the complex procedure of mercy killing should only be carried out by qualified medical professionals.</p>
<p>Her remarks came as Lord Falconer&#8217;s inquiry into assisted dying heard evidence on the controversial debate.</p>
<p>At the moment, anyone acting with compassion to help end the life of someone who has decided they cannot go on is unlikely to face criminal charges.</p>
<p>Some travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland to end their life.</p>
<p>After she gave evidence, Lady Warnock, 86, said: &#8220;I think that only doctors and nurses can secure a safe death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier, Dignity in Dying chief executive Sarah Wootton said the 1961 Suicide Act was &#8220;no longer fit for purpose&#8221; and guidelines brought in after the case of right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy needed be replaced.</p>
<p>The Commission on Assisted Dying, an independent inquiry being held at the central London headquarters of think-tank Demos, is considering what system, if any, should exist to allow people to be helped to die and whether changes should be introduced to the law.</p>
<p>Assisted suicide remains a criminal offence in England and Wales, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, but individual decisions on prosecution will be made on the circumstances of each case.</p>
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