Police are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the death of a Glasgow man whose mother took him to a Swiss clinic to die.

Helen Cowie told BBC Scotland’s Call Kaye show she helped her son Robert, 33, commit suicide after he was left paralysed from the neck down.

Mrs Cowie, of Cardonald, Glasgow, said her son went to Dignitas in October and “had a very peaceful ending”.

The report from BBC News can be found here.

Last December the Scottish Parliament rejected plans to give terminally ill people the right to choose when to die.  Independent MSP Margo MacDonald’s End of Life Assistance Bill aimed to make it legal for someone to seek help to end their life.  The Bill was defeated by 85 votes to 16 with two abstentions.