LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- A secret organization has been illegally helping terminally ill British people travel to a Swiss suicide clinic, the London Telegraph reported Sunday.
The organization, called The Last Choice, was founded in March by Dr. Michael Irwin, a former chairman of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, with the intent to give financial assistance to British people seeking to end their lives, the Telegraph said.
TLC has been giving up to $3,780 per person to people traveling to the clinic in Zurich, run by controversial Swiss charity Dignitas, which provides people with "doctor-assisted suicides." The money is meant to help pay for flights, hotels, cremation and doctors' fees.
The organization has also provided escorts for clients and has been offering them advice on how to arrange their own deaths at Dignitas.
The group's actions are criminal offences under the 1961 Suicide Act, which states that anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another" is liable to up to 14 years' imprisonment.
A spokesman for Surrey Police said: "We would be keen to see The Telegraph's evidence, and then, together with the CPS, we would make a decision on whether to investigate."
