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Bridget Kathleen (Kay) Gilderdale Court case: Lewes Combined Court: Media coverage: 3
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Dr Macintyre and the Gilderdale family discuss ME
Telegraph | 20 January 2010
Mother researched suicide on Google before daughter’s death
Times | 20 January 2010
Kay Gilderdale trawled net for euthanasia after daughter’s morphine overdose
Sussex Argus | 20 January 2010
Mum accused of trying to kill ME sufferer daughter “had researched suicide methods”
Rye & Battle Observer | 20 January 2010
Accused mother ‘researched suicide methods’
Yorkshire Evening Post | 20 January 2010
Accused mother ‘researched suicide methods’
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Times | Steve Bird | 20 January 2009
Father of ME victim Lynn Gilderdale defends former wife
The father of a severely ill woman who killed herself after being given drugs by her mother today defended his former wife and insisted that she was not capable of murder.
Richard Gilderdale, a retired police officer, sobbed in court as he told how Kay Gilderdale had “protected him” from prosecution after their daughter, Lynn, 31, repeatedly told them that her life was too “wretched” and she wanted to die…
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Sidney Morning Herald | Sandra Laville | 20 January 2010
LONDON: A ”devoted mother” who found her desperately ill daughter trying to kill herself spent 28 hours administering a cocktail of lethal drugs to her after failing to convince her to go on living, a court has heard.
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London Evening Standard | Paul Cheston Court Correspondent | 19 January 2010
Father: ME daughter was determined to end her life
Former police officer Richard Gilderdale said the illness had robbed his daughter of any quality of life. Describing her as his “best friend”, Mr Gilderdale said the cumulative effects of ME over the course of 17 years led her to describe her body as “broken”. He said that during those years he and his former wife, Bridget Kathleen Gilderdale, known as Kay, gave unwavering support for their daughter right up until her death in December 2008.
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Also Sun 18 January 2010
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