Having seen my own father deteriorate from terminal illness I’ve got sympathy for both of them but there are other less dramatic ways of ending life with less risk and trauma…But IMO if Dad really felt shooting himself was the best way out from what was probably a painful and distressing condition he should have done so away from the NHS hospital facilities as its not fair on hospital workers etc (and why spend time and resources treating him if he is only going to end his own life?)
it also does seem a bit chilling in these days of deteriorating social cohesion that an otherwise middle class law abiding citizen has gone to all the effort of obtaining an illegal firearm – if he can get guns like that what else might he have been planning to d with them? As an aside, the weapon used was the pistol best known in this country for being associated with James Bond!
the teacher isn’t that smart IMO. he might get time in jail now and is almost certain to lose his career when he could have just sent his dad to one of the foreign nations where euthanasia is legal or got him some morphine, barbiturates or similar drug :you_crazy
A music teacher, who admitted giving his father a gun so he could shoot himself dead in hospital, is due to be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court.
Guy Button handed the Walther PPK handgun to his 63-year-old father Ian, who was terminally ill, in a packed ward at Northampton General Hospital on October 20 last year.
The 30-year-old, of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, earlier admitted two charges of possessing an illegal firearm.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges of passing an illegal firearm on to his father Ian.
Once Mr Button’s father had been handed the gun, he drew the curtain round his bed before shooting himself in the head.
