LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A British woman on trial for murder in the assisted suicide of her daughter was described as a caring, loving and most devoted mother, court records show.
Bridget Kathleen Gilderdale, 55, denies the murder charge but admits aiding and abetting the Dec. 4, 2008, suicide of her daughter Lynn, 31, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
Lynn Gilderdale had suffered from myalgic encephalopathy since age 14 and expressed a clear desire in the past to end her own life, jurors heard.
The prosecution alleges Gilderdale provided her daughter with two morphine-filled syringes. After the daughter injected herself and it became apparent the suicide bid had failed, Gilderdale administered morphine tablets and injected her daughter with syringes of air to cause an embolism, the Daily Mail reported.
Lynn Gilderdale died of morphine toxicity, the court heard.
Prosecutor Sally Howes told the jurors it was not their task to judge the "motives or morals" of the mother or "to choose where your sympathies lie."
"It is your job to decide whether the actions of Kay Gilderdale fell outside of the law," she said in her opening speech.
