Pressure is growing for a change in the law after a woman who admitted helping her mother to die walked free from Court.

Gillian Jennison gave sleeping tablets to her mother Annie Wilks who was suffering from confusion and desperately wanted to die. Jennison, 52, of Alma Terrace, Morton, was sentenced on Monday to 12 months' probation after the judge said there was no hint of any 'ulterior motive'.

The non-custodial sentence was welcomed by pro-euthanasia lobbyists who are calling for the law to be reviewed.

Their pleas are supported by Allan Bland, whose heart-rending decision five years ago to allow his son Tony - a victim of the Hillsborough tragedy - to die caused huge controversy.

Speaking exclusively this week to the Keighley News, Mr Bland - of Castle Hill Court, Fell Lane - said the Jennison case was extremely sad and he added that he had every sympathy with the daughter.

He says: "I would not condemn her actions. The whole legal situation needs looking at. This is a grey area and something should be done."

Tony Bland spent four years in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale Hospital after suffering massive brain damage at Hillsborough.

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