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The Telegraph reports [telegraph.co.uk]:

An eminent professor is thought to have taken her own life just days after police raided her home searching for a ‘suicide kit’ consisting of imported drugs.

Professor Avril Henry, 82, left behind a note in which she criticised the "illogical, cruel British law which says suicide is legal” but made it a criminal offence for anybody to help her kill herself.

Campaigners accused authorities of doing “everything they could to make her last days on this earth a misery”.

The importation of the drugs had been flagged up by Interpol who in turn tipped off local police in Devon. It is understood they broke down Prof Henry’s door and searched her home but found either none or only part of the drugs’ batch.

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