the Supreme court on Monday upheld a sentence of 60 days imprisonment to the physician Svend Lings. He is sentenced to help two suicides and a suicide attempt.
Svend Lings had, exceptionally, been allowed to appeal the case to the Supreme court, which was to assess whether the district court had proper track of the legal details included in the case.
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A conditional sentence means that he is not to be in and serve. But he commits a similar crime again, then the smoking he is in prison.
The retired doctor Svend Lings says to TV2 News that he will continue to advise patients who want to commit suicide.
the Prosecution accused Svend Lings in three different cases.
In the spring of 2017 was Svend Lings accused of having handed over a quantity of Fenemal for a terminal lungesyg man, knowing that the drug would be used to commit suicide with.
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It was he, after he had participated in a program on Radio24syv. Here he was, in his capacity as a member of the association of Doctors for Euthanasia.
In the programme he told how he had helped several patients to die. It got the Patient to notify him because of his opinions.
He was also charged in august 2018 that have helped a woman to commit suicide. He recommended her to supplement the medicine with a plastic bag over his head.
Svend Lings and psychiatrist Frits Schjøtt was indicted in the spring of 2017, in the common understanding to have the printed prescription medication to a man, knowing that the medicine was to be used to commit suicide with. It failed the man.
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After being acquitted in one relationship in the district court, was Lings in January convicted of all three conditions in the Eastern high Court. And this is the judgment, that he had appealed to the Supreme court.
Lings’ lawyer, Hanne Rahbek, during the case indicated that the concept of “participation”, when it comes to the means to suicide, to be interpreted far more narrowly than medvirkensbegrebet usually in criminal matters.
In their judgment the supreme court justices, the lawyer successfully argued that the term should be understood differently in selvmordssager. But in the specific case, there has still been talk about the involvement of the, says the judgment.
In two of the cases have Lings either prescribed a medication or helped to get prescribed a medication. And it is aiding suicide, believes the five judges of the supreme court.
In the third case advised the Lings an older woman on mail about how she was going to take the life of themselves.
